Jeremiah 47:5

A Message Concerning The Philistines

⁴ Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will plunder the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. ⁵  Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? ⁶ O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet? put yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still.

How Long

Ashkelon

Gaza

Philistia

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be gashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Jeremiah 25:20

And all the foreign people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

Jeremiah 41:5

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

Micah 1:16

Make yourselves bald, and cut your hair because of your precious children; enlarge your baldness like an eagle; for they shall go into captivity from you.

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make any bald place upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, 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 bald place on your foreheads for the dead.

Judges 1:18

Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Askelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

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.

Isaiah 15:2

He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Jeremiah 16:1

The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

Jeremiah 47:1

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

Jeremiah 47:4

Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will plunder the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

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.

Ezekiel 25:16

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will 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 turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

Zephaniah 2:4-7

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Zechariah 9:5-7

Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

Mark 5:5

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.