Jer 47:4 | TNotes | STEP | 47:4 The time has come ... the Lord is destroying: The Lord controlled what would happen, as well as when events would occur. • The Philistines had come into the southeastern coastal areas from the island of Crete between 1200 and 1100 BC . The northern cities, Tyre and Sidon , were colonized at about the same time by distant cousins of the Philistines who mixed with the native Canaanites.

‏ Jeremiah 47:4

47:4 ^a The time has come ... the Lord is destroying: The Lord controlled what would happen, as well as when events would occur.

• The Philistines had come into the southeastern coastal areas from the island of Crete between 1200 and 1100 BC. The northern cities, Tyre and Sidon, were colonized at about the same time by distant cousins of the Philistines who mixed with the native Canaanites.