And He will stretch out His hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, powerful though it was at that time, and will make Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, Jonah 1:2, a desolation, although it was then surrounded by a network of irrigation canals, and dry like a wilderness. The prophet purposely devotes more time to Assyria, because it was at that time the greatest world-power and particularly hostile to the Lord's people.
Verse Zephaniah 2:13. _HE WILL - DESTROY ASSYRIA_] He will overthrow the empire, and _Nineveh_, their metropolitan city. See on Jonah and Nahum....
Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction, “I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah” Zephaniah 1:4; he sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; “He will stretch o...
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...
AND HE. See note on "For", Zephaniah 2:4. STRETCH OUT HIS HAND. Idiom for executing judgment. THE NORTH: i.e. against Assyria, because although west of Canaan, the road and entrance was by the north...
_stretch out his hand_ See on Zephaniah 1:4....
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...
Threat against Assyria The passage naturally implies that the Assyrian empire had not yet fallen....
_JUDGMENT AGAINST ETHIOPIA AND ASSYRIA -- ZEPHANIAH 2:12-15:_ The Ethiopians had also made light of God's people. They likewise would feel the vengeance of divine wrath. God completed His circle of Ju...
WILL MAKE NINEVEH A DESOLATION— Dr. Prideaux observes, that, Chyniladanus being king of the Assyrian and Babylonian empire, Nabopolassar his general took the latter from him, in the sixteenth year of...
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...
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE NORTH, AND DESTROY...
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:...
(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...
(13-15) The sentence against Assyria in the north. This was fulfilled as early as B.C. 625, when Nineveh was taken and destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians. It will be remembered that this catastrop...
וְ יֵ֤ט יָדֹו֙ עַל ־צָפֹ֔ון וִֽ יאַבֵּ֖ד
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...
_The beautiful city. Ninive, which was destroyed soon after this, viz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias. (Challoner) (the year of the world 3378.) --- Hebrew, "he shall make Ninive desola...
"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 proceeds here to the Assyrians, whom we know to have been special enemies to the Church of God. For the Moabites and the Ammonites were fans only, as we have elsewhere seen, as they could...
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...
AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE NORTH,.... Either the Lord, or Nebuchadnezzar his sword; who, as he would subdue the nations that lay southward, he would lead his army northward against t...
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness. Ver. 13. _And he will stretch out his hand against the north_...
_And he will stretch out his hand against the north_ Nor will the southern nations only be punished, but judgments will be executed by the divine justice on the nations lying toward the north; _and wi...
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...
AND HE, the Lord God of Israel, or the Chaldean monarch as God's servant herein, WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND, engage all his power, and use it to the utmost, against the north, i.e. as follows, Assyria,...
Zephaniah 2:13 out H5186 (H8799) hand H3027 north H6828 Destroy H6 (H8762) Assyria H804 make H7760 ...
THE ASSYRIANS (ZEPHANIAH 2:13). Zephaniah 2:13 ‘And he will stretch out his hand against the north, And destroy Assyria, And he will make Nineveh a desolation, And dry like the wilderness. And h...
NINEVEH (_ See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1). _...
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:...
_He will stretch out His hand against the north._ NATIONAL PRIDE AND NATIONAL RUIN Two facts are suggested-- I. That men are often prone to pride themselves on the greatness of their country. The me...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:13 God will STRETCH OUT HIS HAND, an image indicating power and control (compare Genesis 16:12;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 2:13.) The prophet dwells longer on the heathen power of the north, the Assyrian kingdom with its capital, Nineveh, because Assyria was then the imperial power, seeking to d...
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...
Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 11:11; Nahum 1:1;...
He — God. The north — Assyria, which lay northward of Judea, and due north from Babylon....