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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 47:7

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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How can it be quiet, etc.] There is no reason to believe it will, nor can it be expected that it should; to stop it is impossible, and to request that it might be stopped is in vain: seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the seashore? for it had a commission from the Lord to destroy the inhabitants of Ashkelon, and other places, which lay still more towards the sea, as Joppa and Jamne; and indeed all Palestine lay on the coast of the Mediterranean sea: there hath he appointed it; by an irreversible decree of his, in righteousness to punish the inhabitants of these places for their sins.
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