At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses],.... The noise of the cavalry of Nebuchadnezzar's army, as they came marching on towards the country of the Philistines; who, being mounted on strong prancing horses, made a great noise as they came along, and were heard at a distance:at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling, of his wheels; the rattling and clatter the chariot wheels made; in which rode the chief officers and generals, with other mighty men: chariots were much used in war in those times:the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands; they should be so frightened at the approach of the enemy, and flee with much precipitancy to provide for their own safety, that they should not think of their children, or stay to deliver and save them, the most near and dear unto them; being so terrified as not to be able to lift up their hands to defend themselves, and protect their children.
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Jeremiah 47:3
Jeremiah 47:3
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Jeremiah 47 — OverviewJeremiah 47 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter reads the Philistines their doom, as the former read the
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short, but terrible; and Tyre and Zidon, though they lay at some…Jeremiah 47 — OverviewJeremiah 47 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJeremiah 47:1, The destruction of the Philistines.Jeremiah 47 — OverviewJeremiah 47 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of the Philistines chiefly; and also of the Tyrians and Zidonians. The title of the prophecy, Jer 47:1; the instruments of this destruction, who are compared to…Jeremiah 47:1-7Jeremiah 47:1-7 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleAs the Egyptians had often proved false friends, so the Philistines had
always been sworn enemies, to the Israel of God, and the more dangerous
and vexatious for their being such near neighbours to them. They were…Jeremiah 47:3Jeremiah 47:3 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgethe noise: Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 46:9; Judges 5:22; Job 39:19-25; Ezekiel 26:10-11; Nahum 2:4, Nahum 3:2-3
the fathers: Deuteronomy 28:54-55; Lamentations 4:3-4