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How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.
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The Sword of the Lord
Commentators explain that the invading army is personified as "the sword of Jehovah." This isn't merely a human conflict but a divine instrument carrying out God's specific command. This imagery powerfully shows that God is sovereign over nations and uses even pagan armies to accomplish His purposes and enact His justice.
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Jeremiah
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19th Century
Anglican
Against the sea shore. —In the “sea shore,” as in Ezekiel 25:16, we have the term specially appropriate to the territory of the Ph…
16th Century
Protestant
Here Jeremiah turns to address the sword of God, and it is a felicitous apostrophe. It is very striking and forcible when the Prophet at one time a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How can it be quiet There is no reason to believe it will, nor can it be expected that it should; to stop it is impo…
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Presbyterian
The Philistines had always been enemies to Israel; but the Chaldean army shall overflow their land like a deluge. Those whom God will spoil, must b…
