Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Baldness
The remnant
Bible References
Baldness
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Isaiah 15:2
They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
Ezekiel 7:18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Micah 1:16
Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
The remnant
Jeremiah 47:4
because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
Jeremiah 25:20
and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
Ezekiel 25:16
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
How
Jeremiah 16:1
The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 41:5
that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1 Kings 18:28
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Mark 5:5
And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.