Jeremiah 47:5

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Summary

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

All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.

They went up to the idols' house, even to Dibon to the high places, to weep for Nebo; and Moab did mourn for Medeba. All their heads were bald, and all their beards shaven.

they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald;

Make thee bald, and shave thee, because of thy tender children: Make thee clean bald as an Eagle, for they shall be carried away captive from thee.

The remnant

at the same time when he shall be there to destroy the whole land of the Philistines. He shall make waste both Tyre and Sidon and all others that are sworn unto them. For the LORD will destroy all Philistia, and the other Isles that be divided from the country.

and all kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistine's land - Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod -

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will stretch out mine hand over the Philistines, and destroy the destroyer, and cause all the remnant of the sea coast to perish.

How

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD unto me:

there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.

All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.

Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.

Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.

And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.

And always both night and day he cried in the mountains and in the graves and beat himself with stones.