Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is come upon Gaza,.... The Targum is,

"vengeance is come to the inhabitants of Gaza.''

It is become like a man whose hair is fallen from his head, or is clean shaved off; its houses were…

Baldness - Extreme mourning (see Jer 16:6). Is cut off - Others render, is speechless through grief. With the remnant of their valley - Others, O remnant of their valley, how long wilt thou cut…

As the Egyptians had often proved false friends, so the Philistines had always been sworn enemies, to the Israel of God, and the more dangerous and vexatious for their being such near neighbours to…

Baldness in token of mourning. See on Jer 16:6.

Gaza important from its situation at the junction of the roads for caravans from Egypt and Arabia.

Ashkelon mentioned again in Jer 47:47. Co., however,…