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
They have all shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.'
Isaiah 15:2
They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off.
Ezekiel 7:18
They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
Micah 1:16
Make yourself bald. Cut off your hair for the children of your delight! Enlarge your baldness as the eagle. For your children are gone into exile (captivity) from you.
The remnant
Jeremiah 47:4
The time has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon any Philistine who might have escaped to get help. Jehovah will destroy the Philistines and anyone who is left from the island of Crete.
Jeremiah 25:20
and all the foreign people living among them; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of Philistia, those from the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron, and the people left in Ashdod;
Ezekiel 25:16
therefore the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will stretch out my hand (exert power) against the Philistines. I will even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.
How
Jeremiah 16:1
The word of Jehovah also came to me:
Jeremiah 41:5
Eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. Their beards were shaved off, their clothes were torn, and cuts were on their bodies. They brought grain offerings and incense to Jehovah's Temple.
Jeremiah 48:37
They have all shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.'
Leviticus 19:28
Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 21:5
You should never mourn by shaving bald spots on your heads, shaving the edges of your beards, or slashing your bodies.
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of Jehovah your God. Do not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.
1 Kings 18:28
So they gave loud cries and they cut themselves with knives and swords till the blood came streaming out all over them.
Mark 5:5
Day and night in the tombs and in the mountains he cried out. He would cut himself with stones.