Jeremiah 47:7

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How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.

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The Assyrian and Babylonian ExileThe kingdoms of Judah and Israel with the routes of the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.

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Philistia lay on the southern Levantine coast along the Great Sea (Mediterranean), including Gaza and Ashkelon; Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician ports farther north. Caphtor, commonly linked with Crete, was remembered as the Philistines’ origin, while the passage announces the Lord’s inescapable judgment on these coastal peoples.

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Jeremiah 47:7 mentions Ashkelon, Caphtor, Gaza, Great Sea, Philistia, Sidon and Tyre.

Photo of Philistia — Philistia · גד סובול

Photo of Tyre — Tyre · Vyacheslav Argenberg