How — God lets the prophet know that he had given this sword its commission, and therefore it could not stop 'till Ashkelon and the people on the sea — shore were destroyed by it.
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Jeremiah 47:7
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.