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: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
Isaiah 15:2
They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
Ezekiel 7:18
They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
Micah 1:16
Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you.
The remnant
Jeremiah 47:4
because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for the LORD will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
Jeremiah 25:20
and all the mixed 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 says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
How
Jeremiah 16:1
The word of the LORD came also to me, saying,
Jeremiah 41:5
that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
Leviticus 19:28
"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 21:5
"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the LORD your God: you 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, as was their custom, with swords and spears, until the blood gushed out on 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.