Jeremiah 47:1
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The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageThe oracle concerns Philistia’s coastal cities—Gaza and Ashkelon—along the Great Sea (the Mediterranean), with Tyre and Sidon farther north in Phoenicia. Caphtor, likely Crete or a nearby Aegean region, was remembered as the Philistines’ origin, underscoring the coming judgment on their whole people.
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Jeremiah 47:1 mentions Ashkelon, Caphtor, Gaza, Great Sea, Philistia, Sidon and Tyre.
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