Jer 47:4 | NET2full | STEP | For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines . The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon . For I, the Lord , will destroy the Philistines , that remnant that came from the island of Crete .

Jeremiah 47:4

4 For the time has come
to destroy all the Philistines.
The time has come to destroy all the help
that remains for Tyre and Sidon.
For I, the Lord, will ^{▼▼tn Heb “For the Lord will.” The first person style has been adopted because the Lord is speaking (cf. v. 2).} destroy the Philistines,
that remnant that came from the island of Crete. ^{▼▼sn All the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon and that remnant that came from the island of Crete appear to be two qualifying phrases that refer to the Philistines, the last pertaining to their origin and the first to their vital alliance with Tyre and Sidon. “Crete” is literally “Caphtor,” which is generally identified with the island of Crete. The Philistines had come from there (Amos 9:7) in the wave of migration from the Aegean Islands during the twelfth and eleventh centuries. They had settled on the Philistine plain after having been repulsed from trying to enter Egypt.}