Jeremiah 47

For Jeremiah 47 in the Septuagint, see Jeremiah 40.

Jeremiah 47
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A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex showing the Book of Jeremiah (the sixth book in Nevi'im).
Book	Book of Jeremiah
Hebrew Bible part	Nevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part	6
Category	Latter Prophets
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	24

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. ^[1] In particular, chapters 46-49 focus on Judah's neighbors. ^[2] This chapter contains the poetic oracles against the Philistines. ^{[3] [4]}

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 (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). ^[5] Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 2QJer (2Q13; 1st century CE ^[6] ), with extant verses 1–7. ^{[7] [8]}

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint (with a different chapter and verse numbering), made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^Q; 6th century). ^[9]

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. ^[10] Jeremiah 47 is a part of the prophecies in Jeremiah 46 -49 in the section of Prophecies against the nations (Jeremiah 46-51). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{P} 47:1-7 {P}

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971. ^[11]

The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS). ^[11]

Hebrew, Vulgate, English	Rahlfs' LXX (CATSS)
47:1-7	29:1-7
40:1-16	47:1-16

Verse 1

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. ^[12]

This oracle may be related to the sack of Ashkelon by Nebuchadnezzar in 604 BCE (Jeremiah 5:7; 36:9), although the heading refers to an Egyptian attack on Gaza. ^[4]

Verse 5a

Baldness has come upon Gaza,

Ashkelon is cut off

With the remnant of their valley. ^[13]

The New International Version explains more clearly: Gaza will shave her head in mourning. ^[14] 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". ^[15] The Anakim were a race of giants said to have lived in the southern part of the land of Canaan. ^[16]

See also

• Egypt
• Ashkelon
• Caphtor
• Gaza
• Pharaoh
• Philistines
• Sidon
• Tyre

• Related Bible part: Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 25, Amos 9

References

1. Coogan 2007, p. 1148 Hebrew Bible.
2. O'Connor 2007, p. 522.
3. O'Connor 2007, p. 523.
4. Coogan 2007, p. 1151 Hebrew Bible.
5. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
6. Sweeney, Marvin A. (2010). Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature. Forschungen zum Alten Testament. Vol. 45 (reprint ed.). Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 66. ISBN   9781608994182. ISSN   0940-4155.
7. Fitzmyer, Joseph A. (2008). A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 26. ISBN   9780802862419 . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
8. Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill. pp.  581. ISBN   9789004181830 . Retrieved May 15, 2017.
9. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
10. As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
11. "Table of Order of Jeremiah in Hebrew and Septuagint". www.ccel.org.
12. Jeremiah 47:1: NKJV
13. Jeremiah 47:5: NKJV
14. Jeremiah 47:5: NIV
15. Streane, A. W., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Jeremiah 47, accessed 13 April 2019
16. Genesis 23:2, Joshua 15:13

Bibliography

• Coogan, Michael David (2007). Coogan, Michael David; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Newsom, Carol Ann; Perkins, Pheme (eds.). The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48 (Augmented 3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195288810.
• Huey, F. B. (1993). The New American Commentary - Jeremiah, Lamentations: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture, NIV Text. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN   9780805401165.
• O'Connor, Kathleen M. (2007). "23. Jeremiah". In Barton, John; Muddiman, John (eds.). The Oxford Bible Commentary (first (paperback) ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 487–533. ISBN   978-0199277186 . Retrieved February 6, 2019.
• Thompson, J. A. (1980). A Book of Jeremiah . The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (illustrated, revised ed.). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN   9780802825308.
• Würthwein, Ernst (1995). The Text of the Old Testament. Translated by Rhodes, Erroll F. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN   0-8028-0788-7 . Retrieved January 26, 2019.

External links

Jewish

• Jeremiah 47 Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

• Jeremiah 47, English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate