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Verse 9. _THE BREEDING OF NETTLES_] That is, their land shall become
desolate, and be a place for nettles, thorns, c., to flourish in, for
want of cultivation....
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THEREFORE AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS - Life especially belongs
to God, since He Alone is Underived Life. “He hath life in
Himself” John 5:26. He is entitled “the living God,” as here, in
tacit...
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CHAPTER S 2-3:8
The Call to Repentance in View of the Judgment
_ 1. The call to repentance (Zephaniah 2:1) _
2. The judgment of the Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4)
3. The judgment of Moab and Ammon (Z...
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Into the natural context of the passage a later writer has woven a
prophecy of vengeance on Moab and Ammon for their revilings and
insults heaped upon Judah (on the day of Jerusalem's downfall), For
t...
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SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. [is] the oracle of Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.
THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 29:23.
SHALL BE AS SODOM. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen...
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Jehovah's oath by Himself, _as I live_, is rare in early writings, but
very common in Ezekiel.
_Moab shall be as Sodom_ The vicinity of the two peoples or at least
of Moab to the Dead Sea may have su...
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The judgment of the Day of the Lord upon the nations
The nations on whom the impending judgment shall fall are: (1) the
Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4); (2) Moab and Ammon (Zephaniah 2:8); (3)
Cush or th...
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_GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MOABITES AND AMMONITES -- ZEPHANIAH
2:8-11:_ God next dealt with the children of Moab and the children of
Ammon, Judah's neighbors to the east. These heathen nations had
in...
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EVEN THE BREEDING OF NETTLES— _A forsaken place of nettles._
Houbigant. Instead of _my people,_ in the last clause, Houbigant reads
_my nation._...
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CHAPTER XXI
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD IS UNIVERSAL
Zephaniah 2:4-15
RV. For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall
_drive out_ Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe u...
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JEHOVAH'S IMPENDING JUDGMENT UPON JUDAH'S NEIGHBOURS AND FOES
The universal note which is struck in Zechariah 1:2 is now further
amplified. Jehovah's agents of punishment, the Scythians, shall carry...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 2
V1 Come together. Come together, (people from) the country that will
not be ashamed!
V2 (Come together) before:...
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(4-15) Jehovah’s chastisement of foreign powers. These Divine
visitations are introduced somewhat abruptly. The connection is
perhaps that they are intended to lead God’s people to repent, and
put the...
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(8-11) The sentence against Moab and Ammon, the descendants of Lot and
the enemies of God’s people, even in the post-exilic period, comp.
Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 4:3;...
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THE BREEDING OF NETTLES. — Better, _an inheritance of nettles._ The
propriety of illustrating the fate of Moab and Ammon by that of the
cities of the plain is the greater in that Lot, the ancestor of...
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לָכֵ֣ן חַי ־אָ֡נִי נְאֻם֩ יְהוָ֨ה
צְבָאֹ֜ות א
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NINIVE DELENDA
Zephaniah 2:4
THERE now come a series of articles on foreign nations, connected with
the previous prophecy by the conjunction for, and detailing the
worldwide judgment which it had pr...
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MEEKNESS SAVES, PRIDE DESTROYS
Zephaniah 2:1-15
The nation, on the whole, had no remorse, no desire for God; but there
were a few meek and lowly souls, and the hope was held out to them
that they wou...
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After this declaration, the prophet uttered his great appeal, first to
the nation as a whole, calling on it to pull itself together before
the opportunity for repentance should pass, before the hour o...
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_Dryness. Septuagint, "Damascus shall be abandoned as a heap on the
barn-floor, and disappearing for an age." (Haydock) --- This city is
threatened with the rest, Isaias xvii. 1. (Calmet) --- Ever.
Se...
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"I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children
of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified
themselves against their border. (9) Therefore as I live, saith th...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
Zephaniah like Habakkuk will be found to have some points of
resemblance with the prophet Jeremiah; and this not merely in the fact
that the Chaldean is the...
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In order to cheer the miserable Jews by some consolation, God said, in
what we considered yesterday, that the wantonness of Moab was known to
him; he now adds, that he would visit with punishment the...
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Chapter 2, while revealing the character of the nation, addresses
itself to her, in order that all those at least who fear Jehovah may
be hidden in the day of His anger. They are called to gather
them...
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THEREFORE [AS] I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,....
The Lord here swears by himself, by his life; partly to show how
provoked he was at, and how grievously he resented, the injuries...
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Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,
[even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual
d...
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_I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of Ammon_ These
countries were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the
destruction of Jerusalem: see the places referred to in the...
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Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the
supreme Ruler of the world, SURELY MOAB SHALL BE AS SODOM, AND THE
CHILDREN OF AMMAN AS GAMORRAH, being overwhelmed by the destruct...
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THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
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4-15 Those are really in a woful condition who have the word of the
Lord against them, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. God
will restore his people to their rights, though long kept from...
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AS I LIVE; the most solemn oath, fit for none but God himself to use:
see EZEKIEL 14:16. SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, who have all things at my
disposal, and can arm all creatures against these proud revi...
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Zephaniah 2:9 live H2416 Says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God
H430 Israel H3478 Moab H4124 Sodom...
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MOAB AND AMMON (ZEPHANIAH 2:8).
Zephaniah 2:8
“I have heard the reproach of Moab,
And the revilings of the children of Ammon,
With which they have reproached my people,
And magnified themselves a...
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CONTENTS: Call to remnant of Israel in the day of the Lord. Judgment
threatened upon Assyria, Philistia and other nations.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The nations that rebel against the precepts of...
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Zephaniah 2:1. _Gather yourselves together,_ for fasting and prayer,
_oh nation not desired,_ whose practices are lothed and abhorred; a
nation whom God will not own as his chosen people.
Zephaniah 2:...
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_I have heard the reproach of Moab._
THE PERSECUTION OF THE GOOD
I. That good men are often subject to annoyances from the ungodly
world. “I have heard the reproach [abuse] of Moab, and the revilings...
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:9 AS I LIVE strengthens an oath that
God makes. His own existence is the surest thing possible (Isaiah
49:18). For people whose livelihood dep
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ZEPHANIAH 2:8. MOAB] and Ammon rejoiced in the calamity of the Jews.
Compare parallel prophecies against Moab (Isaiah 15, 16; Jeremiah 48;
Amos 2:1), and Ammon ...
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EXPOSITION.
VERSE 2:1-3:8
Part II. EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE AND TO PERSEVERANCE.
ZEPHANIAH 2:1
§ 1. The prophet urges all to examine their ways before the day of
the Lord come; and he prays the ri...
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Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired
(Zephaniah 2:1);
Now that "not desired" in the Hebrew literally means "a nation that
knows no shame." They were doing shameful t...
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Amos 1:13; Amos 2:1; Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 26:21; Genesis 19:24
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Of nettles — Not cultivated, but over — run with nettles. Salt —
pits — A dry, barren earth, fit only to dig salt out of. The residue
— That return out of Babylon. Possess them — Settle upon those
par...