The remnant — Whatsoever remains of the idolatry of Baal. This place — Jerusalem. The name — Both the persons, and the memory of them. The Chemarims — Either called so from their black garments they went in, or, from their swarthy colour occasioned by the black smoak of incense: they were door — keepers, and sextons of Baal. The priests — The priests of Baal.
Verse 4. _I WILL CUT OFF THE REMNANT OF BAAL_] I think he refers here, partly at least, to the reformation which Josiah was to bring about. See the account, 2 Kings 23:5. _THE CHEMARIMS_] The _black...
I WILL ALSO STRETCH OUT MINE HAND - As before on Egypt . Judah had gone in the ways of Egypt and learned her sins, and sinned worse than Egypt. “The mighty Hand and stretched-out Arm” Jeremiah 2:10, w...
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...
MINE HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia,_ App-6. REMNANT. Septuagint reads "names", reading _shem_ instead of _she'ar,_ as in the next clause. AND. Some codices, with three early printed editio...
The prophet turns to Judah and Jerusalem. Though the Day of the Lord was the revelation of Jehovah to the world, and therefore a thing universal, the centre of the judgment in the view of the pre-exil...
_GOD'S WRATH COMING UPON JUDAH -- ZEPHANIAH 1:4-6:_ God promised that He would reach out to punish Judah and Jerusalem. The punishment would be so great that nothing would remain. Both Baal and the pa...
THE NAME OF THE CHEMARIMS, &C.— _Of the_ [_idolatrous_] _sacrificers with the priests._ See the note on 2 Kings 23:5....
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...
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; I WI...
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...
I WILL ALSO STRETCH OUT MINE HAND] cp. the similar powerful refrain in Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 9:21. All traces of Baalism, together wit
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 REMNANT OF BAAL. — _i.e.,_ Baal worship shall _he_ completely and utterly abolished. Not even a remnant of it shall be left. The term “remnant” need not imply, as Kleinert argues, that a large par...
וְ נָטִ֤יתִי יָדִי֙ עַל ־יְהוּדָ֔ה וְ עַ֖ל
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 also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the (b) Chemarims with the priests; ...
Baal. Josias had not yet begun his reformation, 4 Kings xxiii. 4. (Calmet) --- At least he had not brought it to perfection, though from his infancy he had encouraged religion. (Haydock) --- Wardens o...
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 explains still more clearly why he directed his discourse in the last verse against the beasts of the earth and the birds of heaven, even for this end—that the Jews might understand that G...
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 ALSO STRETCH OUT MINE HAND UPON JUDAH,.... Under whom the tribe of Benjamin is comprehended, which are only designed; the ten tribes having been carried captive in Hezekiah's time many years be...
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the Chemarims with the priests; Ver....
_I will also stretch out my hand upon Judah_ I will manifest my power upon Judah, as I have done upon Israel. _And I will cut off the remnant of Baal_ The altars, or places of worship, dedicated to Ba...
THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, the particular object of His wrath, AND UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, for the people of the land followed the inhabitants of the capital in their...
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...
I WILL ALSO, Heb. _And I will, or, And I have_; so prophets speak of what shall most certainly be as if already done. STRETCH OUT MINE HAND: this seems to intimate. some immediate stroke from God, he...
Zephaniah 1:4 out H5186 (H8804) hand H3027 Judah H3063 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Jerusalem H3389 off H3772 ...
GOD'S PARTICULAR JUDGMENT WILL AT THIS TIME BE APPLIED TO JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 1:4). Zephaniah 1:4 “And I will stretch out my hand on Judah, And on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And...
CHEMARIMS That is, idolatrous priests. Compare (2 Kings 23:5)....
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...
_And that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham _ THE DEMONSTRATIVENESS OF TRUE RELIGION In this text it is a sort of mixed religion that the Lord declares He will not tolerate. Impress t he...
_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 1:4 JUDAH alone remained to serve as God’s kingdom of priests (see Exodus 19:5;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 1:4.] Judgment, especially upon Judah. STRETCH] Not only threaten, but exert power to injury. REMNANT] Statues, images dedicated to Baal, domestic and tutelary god of the P...
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...
2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 21:13; 2 Kings 23:4; 2 Kings 23:5; E