Jeremiah 47


Jeremiah 47 is the forty-seventh chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter is part of a series of "oracles against foreign nations", consisting of chapters 46 to 51. In particular, chapters 46-49 focus on Judah's neighbors. This chapter contains the poetic oracles against the Philistines.

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 7 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 2QJer, with extant verses 1-7.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 47 is a part of the prophecies in Jeremiah 46-49 in the section of Prophecies against the nations . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in the Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition.
Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs' LXX
47:1-729:1-7
40:1-1647:1-16

Verse 1

This oracle may be related to the sack of Ashkelon by Nebuchadnezzar in 604 BCE, although the heading refers to an Egyptian attack on Gaza.

Verse 5a

The New International Version explains more clearly: Gaza will shave her head in mourning. Biblical commentator A. W. Streane notes that it is an "unsuitable description" to refer to this coastal plain as a "valley" and he therefore prefers the wording of the Septuagint, "the remainder of the Anakim", in place of "the remnant of their valley". The Anakim were a race of giants said to have lived in the southern part of the land of Canaan.

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