Jeremiah 47:5

New Living Translation

Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald; Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the Mediterranean coast, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?

Cross References

1 Kings 18:28

So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until the blood gushed out.

Isaiah 15:2

Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn. They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba, shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards.

Jeremiah 16:1

The Lord gave me another message. He said,

Jeremiah 16:6

Both the great and the lowly will die in this land. No one will bury them or mourn for them. Their friends will not cut themselves in sorrow or shave their heads in sadness.

Jeremiah 25:20

along with all the foreigners living in that land. I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the Temple of the Lord. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense.

Jeremiah 47:1

This is the Lord’s message to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines of Gaza, before it was captured by the Egyptian army.

Jeremiah 47:4

“The time has come for the Philistines to be destroyed, along with their allies from Tyre and Sidon. Yes, the Lord is destroying the remnant of the Philistines, those colonists from the island of Crete.

Jeremiah 48:37

The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap.

Ezekiel 25:16

Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will raise my fist of judgment against the land of the Philistines. I will wipe out the Kerethites and utterly destroy the people who live by the sea.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will dress themselves in burlap; horror and shame will cover them. They will shave their heads in sorrow and remorse.

Leviticus 19:28

“Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:5

“The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.

Micah 1:16

Oh, people of Judah, shave your heads in sorrow, for the children you love will be snatched away. Make yourselves as bald as a vulture, for your little ones will be exiled to distant lands.

Mark 5:5

Day and night he wandered among the burial caves and in the hills, howling and cutting himself with sharp stones.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.

Judges 1:18

In addition, Judah captured the towns of Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron, along with their surrounding territories.