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This brief chapter prophesies the destruction of the Philistine cities by the Egyptians. The question treated by the exegetes was: At which point in history did this occur?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi, Kara, and Radak all relied, here, on a rabbinic tradition recorded in Seder Olam, the definitive rabbinic study of chronology. As reported by Radak:<\/span><\/p>\n

When Pharaoh\u2019s army left Egypt, the Chaldeans [i.e., Babylonians] were besieging Jerusalem in the tenth year of King Zedekiah [587]. The Chaldeans got wind of this and left Jerusalem. When Pharaoh heard that they had left Jerusalem on his account, he took his army and leveled Gaza, and returned home. At that time, God told Jeremiah that the Chaldean army would come and destroy the land of the Philistines.<\/span><\/p>\n

A problem with this interpretation is that the previous chapter (see our comments) was set against the backdrop of the earlier encounter between the Egyptians and Babylonians at Carchemish in 609 BCE. Considering this, Shadal* offered a different interpretation:<\/span><\/p>\n

It appears that Pharaoh Necho struck Gaza during the reign of Josiah, prior to departing Egypt to do battle against the King of Assyria (2 Kings 23:29). The intention behind this warning (preceding Pharaoh\u2019s strike against Gaza) was to notify Jeremiah about the approach of Nebuchadnezzar to Philistia prior to the wars of Nebuchadnezzar [against Judah], at a time that it would not occur to anyone that the Philistines would be attacked from the north.<\/span><\/p>\n

My own observation is this: There were five principal cities of the Philistines: Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, and Ashdod. Our chapter mentions Gaza and Ashkelon by name (5), but also incorporates a general reference to \u201cthe seashore\u201d (7), which likely includes all the remaining cities. So while Ashdod is not mentioned by name, it is noticeable that v. 4 repeats the word \u201cravage\u201d (Hebrew: <\/span>lishdod,<\/span> shoded<\/span><\/em>), which resonates with the name Ashdod.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

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