George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Zephaniah 2:8
Borders, helping the Chaldeans. This brought on their ruin. (St. Jerome) --- They were always disposed to seize the country.
Borders, helping the Chaldeans. This brought on their ruin. (St. Jerome) --- They were always disposed to seize the country.
Verse 8. _I HAVE HEARD THE REPROACH OF MOAB_] God punished them for the cruel part they had taken in the persecutions of the Jews; for when they lay under the displeasure of God, these nations insult...
I - Dionysius: “God, Who know all things, “I heard” that is, have known within Me, in My mind, not anew but from eternity, and now I shew in effect that I know it; wherefore I say that I hear, because...
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...
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...
I HAVE HEARD. Supply the logical _Ellipsis_ (App-6): "[My judgment shall come upon Moab], for. have heard", &c, as in Zephaniah 2:8, &c. MOAB. Compare Isaiah 1. and Isaiah 16;...
Moab and Ammon 8. _I have heard the reproach of Moab_ It is the Lord who speaks. The "reproach" or contempt of Moab is most likely that expressed in words, not that exhibited m insulting deeds; cf. Je...
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...
_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...
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...
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have repro...
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:...
REPROACH. — _i.e.,_ abusive speech, or offensive design expressed in words. Balak’s appeal to Balaam, “Come, curse me this people,” at once suggests itself. We may instance also the conspiracy describ...
(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;...
(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...
שָׁמַ֨עְתִּי֙ חֶרְפַּ֣ת מֹואָ֔ב וְ גִדּוּפֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and (f) magnified [themselves] against their border. (f) These nations presumed...
"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...
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 confirms what I have just said of God’s vengeance against foreign enemies. Though all the neighboring nations had been eager in their hostility to the Jews, yet we know that more hatred, y...
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...
I HAVE HEARD THE REPROACH OF MOAB, AND THE REVILINGS OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,.... Two people that descended from Lot, through incest with his daughters; and are therefore mentioned together, as being...
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. Ver. 8. _I have heard the repro...
_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...
THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
I have heard the reproach of Moab, Cf Jeremiah 48:27, AND THE REVILINGS OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMAN, the two nations east of Jordan and of the Dead Sea, which were related to the children of Israel, but...
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...
I HAVE HEARD: either the prophet for himself, or for the people, speaks this; or else, more likely, in the name of God, assures the Jews that God had heard, observed, resented, and was highly displeas...
Zephaniah 2:8 heard H8085 (H8804) reproach H2781 Moab H4124 insults H1421 people H1121 Ammon H5983 reproached H2778
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...
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:...
_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...
ZEPHANIAH 2:4 Nations Warned. As in Amos 1:3, this passage first focuses on Israel’s neighbors and enemies (Zephaniah 2:4), whom Judah would
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:8 These verbal TAUNTS and REVILINGS (Zephaniah 3:18;...
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 ...
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...
Amos 1:13; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 25:8; Ezekiel 36:2; Jeremiah 48:27
I — God. Magnified themselves — Invading their frontiers....