Jeremiah 47:5

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Jeremiah 47:5

“Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has been ruined.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you gash yourself?

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Jeremiah 25:20

and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);

that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the Lord.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
Because of the children of your delight;
Extend your baldness like the eagle,
For they will go from you into exile.

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Judges 1:18

And Judah took Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.

1 Kings 18:28

So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.

Isaiah 15:2

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

Jeremiah 16:1

The word of the Lord also came to me saying,

Jeremiah 47:1

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza.

Jeremiah 47:4

On account of the day that is coming
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every ally that is left;
For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

Amos 1:6-8

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Gaza and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they deported an entire population
To deliver it up to Edom.

Zephaniah 2:4-7

For Gaza will be abandoned
And Ashkelon a desolation;
Ashdod will be driven out at noon
And Ekron will be uprooted.

Zechariah 9:5-7

Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.
Gaza too will writhe in great pain;
Also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded.
Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

Mark 5:5

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.

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Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Baldness

The remnant

Jeremiah 47:4

Jeremiah 25:20

Ezekiel 25:16

How

Bible References

Baldness

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
Because of the children of your delight;
Extend your baldness like the eagle,
For they will go from you into exile.

The remnant

and all the

foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);

therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

How

The word of the Lord also came to me saying,

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.