Just. Hebrew, "justice." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "righteousness, and answer the same." (Haydock) --- Scarcely the innocent will escape. (Menochius) --- The prophet does not specify the crimes of the Philistines, as Ezechiel (xxv. 15.) does. (Calmet)
Verse Zephaniah 2:3. _YE MEEK OF THE EARTH_] ענוי _anavey_, ye _oppressed_ and _humbled_ of the land. _IT MAY BE YE SHALL BE HID_] The sword has not a commission against you. Ask God, and he will be...
SEEK YE THE LORD - He had exhorted sinners to penitence; he now calls the righteous to persevere and increase more and more. He bids them “seek diligently” , and that with a three-fold call, to seek H...
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...
ZEPHANIAH 2. DOOM ON PHILISTIA [MOAB AND AMMON], ETHIOPIA, AND ASSYRIA. Zephaniah 2:1. Having spent its rage on Judah, the storm of Divine judgment sweeps south by the Philistian sea-board, uprooting...
SEEK... SEEK. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29), as in Zephaniah 1:6. JUDGMENT. ordinances; as in Isaiah 58:2.Jeremiah 8:7.
_all ye meek of the earth_ Though the exhortation to seek the Lord (Amos 5:6; Isaiah 55:6) be addressed specially to the prophet's own people of Judah, there is no necessity for rendering, meek of the...
_REPENT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE -- ZEPHANIAH 2:1-3:_ God's people had become a disgraceful nation. God called upon them to gather around and focus their attention on correcting those things wherein they...
DISCOURSE: 1228 REPENTANCE URGED Zephaniah 2:1. Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fier...
WHICH HAVE WROUGHT HIS JUDGMENT— _Keep his judgments._ Houbigant....
JUDGEMENT OF JUDAH. Zephaniah 1:4 to Zephaniah 2:3) RV. And I will stretch our my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, an...
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger. SEEK YE THE LORD, ALL YE ME...
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...
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:...
WROUGHT HIS JUDGMENT. — Or, rather, _executed His sentence_ — acted in compliance with His revealed will by refraining from the sins above specified....
II. (1-3) An exhortation to seek God before His day of vengeance is revealed....
בַּקְּשׁ֤וּ אֶת ־יְהוָה֙ כָּל ־עַנְוֵ֣י הָ אָ
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, lon...
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...
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...
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...
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which (b) have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger. (b) That is, who have liv...
"Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (2) Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before...
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...
Here the Prophet turns his discourse to a small number, for he saw that he could produce no effect on the promiscuous multitude. For had his doctrine been addressed in common to the whole people, ther...
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...
SEEK YE THE LORD, ALL YE MEEK OF THE EARTH,.... Or "of the land", of the land of Judea. In this time of great apostasy, there was a remnant according to the election of grace, whom the Lord reserved f...
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger. Ver. 3. _Seek ye the Lord, al...
_Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek_ Here the prophet addresses some others, different from those addressed before, namely, the few pious, who still remained in Jerusalem and Judah amidst the general corru...
THE EXHORTATION AND THE DOOM OF THE PHILISTINES...
Seek ye the Lord, in proper repentance, ALL YE MEEK OF THE EARTH, the humble of the land, those who were still disposed to he guided by His will, WHICH HAVE WROUGHT HIS JUDGMENT, observed His right, t...
1-3 The prophet calls to national repentance, as the only way to prevent national ruin. A nation not desiring, that has not desires toward God, is not desirous of his favour and grace, has no mind to...
SEEK YE THE LORD; turn to him with sound and true repentance, pray for pardon, engage in new obedience, inquire in the law what is your duty, and do it; fear, worship, depend on the Lord alone. ALL YE...
Zephaniah 2:3 Seek H1245 (H8761) LORD H3068 meek H6035 earth H776 upheld H6466 (H8804) justice H4941 Seek...
CHAPTER 2 YHWH'S JUDGMENT WILL ALSO COME ON THE SURROUNDING NATIONS FOR THEIR SINS. A Final Plea to Judah and Jerusalem (Zephaniah 2:1). Zephaniah 2:1 “Gather yourselves together, yes, gather toget...
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...
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:...
_Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth._ SIN AND REPENTANCE, THE BANE AND ANTIDOTE An exhortation to the men of Judah to repent ere the Chaldean invaders approach and wreak destruction on their...
ZEPHANIAH 2:1 Repentance Is Still Possible. Although sin is a universal human problem, God will show grace if his people repent. And yet, Israel’s actions demonstrate that they are not covenant follow...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:3 Rather than abandoning God, Judah is called to SEEK diligently for him (compare Zephaniah 1:6;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Summons to repent. GATHER] As stubble (Exodus 5:7); then generally, to collect; in this sense, to gather one’s self, to examine one’s self. DESIRED] A word which signifies primarily,...
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...
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...
1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:10;...
Seek — Fear, worship, depend on him alone. Ye meek — Ye humble ones. Wrought his judgment — Obeyed his precepts. Seek righteousness — Continue therein. Seek meekness — Patiently wait on the just and m...