Sea: the waters and air shall be pestilential. (Haydock) --- St. Jerome frequently observes that when a country is depopulated, as the Roman empire was in his days, the most fertile regions were soon abandoned even by beasts and birds. --- Meet. Septuagint, "be weak." Hebrew, "I will gather (Calmet; Protestants, "consume;" Haydock) scandals (or idols) with the wicked." (Symmachus)
Verse Zephaniah 1:3. _I WILL CONSUME MAN AND BEAST_] By _war_, and by _pestilence_. Even the _waters_ shall he infected, and the _fish_ destroyed; the _air_ become contaminated, and the _fowls_ die....
THE STUMBLING-BLOCKS WITH THE WICKED - Not only shall the wicked be utterly brought to an end, or, in the other meaning of the word, “gathered into bundles to be taken away,” but all causes of stumbli...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Day of the Lord, the Day of Judgment _ 1. The judgment of all the world (Zephaniah 1:1) _ 2. The judgment will destroy the evildoers in Judah (Zephaniah 1:4)...
THE DOOM OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. Zephaniah 1:2. Riding as it were on the crest of a tidal wave of destruction, which sweeps off man and beast from the face of the ground, Yahweh stretches His hand aga...
I WILL CONSUME. Note the Figure of speech _Anaphora_. Three times repeated. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_ with. _eth_. humanity App-14. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), for emphasis. ST...
Zephaniah 1:3 particularises the "all things" of Zephaniah 1:2, cattle and fowl and fishes of the sea, and man. Hosea 4:3, "Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall lan...
_AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMING JUDGMENT -- ZEPHANIAH 1:1-3:_ This little book begins, "The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah." Zephaniah affirms that the message that he wrote was an inspired mes...
I WILL CONSUME, &C.— _I will take away;_ namely, from the land of Judah. Houbigant; who, instead of, _And the stumbling-blocks with the wicked,_ reads, _I will bring ruin on the wicked._ Others read,...
UNIVERSAL JUDGEMENT PROCLAIMED. Zephaniah 1:2-3 RV. I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heav...
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD....
THE DAY OF JEHOVAH A DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR GUILTY JUDAH The prophecy opens with the declaration of universal destruction for all living things. IN his way the prophet impresses upon his hearers the comp...
STUMBLINGBLOCKS] or, slightly correcting the text to bring it into harmony with the rest of the v., 'I will destroy the wicked.'...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Assyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For many years, it ruled most of the world. Nahum,...
(1-6) Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem is impending on account of a religious apostacy of manifold forms and degrees. The wide range of this judgment....
THE STUMBLINGBLOCKS WITH THE WICKED. — _i.e.,_ the enticements to sin together with the sinners. The word _macshêlâh_ is used in Isaiah 3:6 in the sense of “a ruin.” Here, however, such a significatio...
In this extensive denunciation there is clearly a reminiscence of Genesis 7:23. The “fishes of the sea,” however, are substituted for the “creeping things.” The prophecy in Manasseh’s reign (2 Kings 2...
אָסֵ֨ף אָדָ֜ם וּ בְהֵמָ֗ה אָסֵ֤ף עֹוף ־הַ
THE PROPHET AND THE REFORMERS Zephaniah 1:1 - Zephaniah 2:3 TOWARDS the year 625, when King Josiah had passed out of his minority, and was making his first efforts at religious reform, prophecy, long...
“THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD” Zephaniah 1:1-18 Zephaniah means hidden of the Lord. He lived in Josiah's reign, and cooperated with that king in his efforts to put down idolatry. His prophecy deals wit...
The first movement of the prophecy is the prophet's declaration of the coming judgment of Jehovah. This he announced in general terms, then described more particularly its procedure and character. Thi...
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the (a) fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD....
O "I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. (3) I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks wit...
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...
The prophet begins by declaring that the land should be reduced to complete desolation; afterwards, that Judah, Jerusalem, their false gods, and their priests, should be smitten by the hand of Jehovah...
I WILL CONSUME MAN AND BEAST,.... Wicked men for their sins, and beasts for the sins of men; and, as a punishment for them, the creatures whom they have abused to the gratifying of their lusts: I WIL...
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. Ver...
_I will utterly consume all things_, &c. That is, I will make the land of Judea quite desolate. _I will consume man and beast_, &c. That is, beasts of the tame and domestic kind. _I will consume the f...
I will consume man and beast, even the creatures being affected by the universality of the judgment; I WILL CONSUME THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN AND THE FISHES OF THE SEA, AND THE STUMBLING-BLOCKS WITH THE...
THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
STUMBLINGBLOCKS: Or, idols...
1-6 Ruin is coming, utter ruin; destruction from the Almighty. The servants of God all proclaim, There is no peace for the wicked. The expressions are figurative, speaking every where desolation; the...
The former verse denounced the future desolation in general terms. This verse specifieth what desolation in particular God would bring upon the land. I WILL CONSUME MAN AND BEAST; man shall be consume...
Zephaniah 1:3 consume H5486 (H8686) man H120 beast H929 consume H5486 (H8686) birds H5775 heavens H8064 fish...
GOD WILL ONE DAY BRING THE WORLD INTO JUDGMENT (ZEPHANIAH 1:2). These first two verses speak of the apocalyptic future when YHWH will finally bring His judgment on the world because of their sin. This...
CONTENTS: Coming judgment on Judah prefiguring the coming day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God, Zephaniah, Josiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not improve the presence of God with them as a Father, may e...
Zephaniah 1:1. _The Word of the Lord came to Zephaniah._ The glorious person of Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God; so indeed is the oft-repeated gloss of the Chaldaic in all the book of Chronicles, w...
_I will utterly consume all things from off the land._ THE MENACE OF ZEPHANIAH It would not be easy to find words more fully charged and surcharged with terror than these. Nor do they grow less sombr...
_The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah._ THE WORD I. THE DISTINGUISHING CAPACITY OF MAN, AND THE WONDERFUL CONDESCENSION OF GOD. 1. The distinguishing capacity of man. To receive the word...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:2 Judgment Coming against Judah. God first directs his attention against all living beings (vv. Zephaniah 1:2). He then addresses Judah, r
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:3 The listing of MAN AND BEAST... THE BIRDS... AND THE FISH, terms that occur in the creation account (Genesis 1:20,...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 1:2. CONSUME] From root; to destroy, utterly to sweep away (cf. Jeremiah 8:13) everything (Zephaniah 1:3). “The enumeration of particulars is designed to augment the fearful...
EXPOSITION. ZEPHANIAH 1:1 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD, AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR....
Zephaniah Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Zephaniah. The opening verse tells us that, This is the word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, who was the son of Gedali...
Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 15:6; Ezekiel 44:12; Ezeki