Jeremiah 47:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 47 The destruction of the Philistines, Tyrians, Zidonians, and others by the sea-side. In the former chapter the prophet foretold the judgments of God upon the Egyptians, who were the Jews seeming friends, but their real enemies, as they were occasions to them of idolatry, and of a sinful confidence in them. He comes in this chapter to foretell the judgments of God upon the Philistines, who were inveterate enemies to the Jews, against whom also Isaiah, Isaiah 14:29 of his prophecy, and Ezekiel, and Amos prophesied, Ezekiel 25:15 Amos 1:6; and also Zephaniah, in Zephaniah 2:4,5 of his prophecy. When the king of Egypt took Gaza, one of the five cities of the Philistines, the Scripture doth not tell us. Some think it was either in his way to Carchemish, or as he came back a conqueror from the battle at Megiddo, where Josiah was slain. The time when Jeremiah had this revelation is set down to let us know that it was in the time of the Philistines prosperity, when the prophet could see no such effect existent, or probable in its causes.