Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves — Call a solemn assembly, proclaim a fast. Not desired — Or, not desirous. Unwilling to return, and unworthy to be received on your return.
Gather yourselves — Call a solemn assembly, proclaim a fast. Not desired — Or, not desirous. Unwilling to return, and unworthy to be received on your return.
CHAPTER II _The prophet, having declared the judgments which were ready to_ _fall on his people, earnestly exhorts them to repentance, that_ _these judgments may be averted_, 1-3. _He then foretel...
Having set forth the terrors of the Judgment Day, the prophet adds an earnest call to repentance; and then declares how judgments, forerunners of that Day, shall fall, one by one, on those nations aro...
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...
GATHERS. Collect. Hebrew. _kashash._ Occurs only in Exodus 5:7; Exodus 5:12.Numbers 15:32; Numbers 15:33. 1Ki 17:10,...
Zephaniah 2:1-3. Exhortation to men to seek righteousness, if perchance they may be hid in the Day of the Lord 1. The prophet addresses himself to Judah. _Gather yourselves together_ The sense is obs...
_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...
O NATION NOT DESIRED— _O nation, that receiveth not instruction._ Houbigant renders this and the next verse as follows: _O nation without knowledge._ Zephaniah 2:2. Before you be carried away as the c...
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...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER - to a religious assembly, to avert the judgment by prayers, (Joel 2:16, "Gather the people, sanct...
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:...
GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER. — This rendering has little to recommend it. Two translations of the obscure verb here used are possible: _Sift yourselves, yea sift_ — _i.e.,_ winnow out the sins which ha...
II. (1-3) An exhortation to seek God before His day of vengeance is revealed....
הִֽתְקֹושְׁשׁ֖וּ וָ קֹ֑ושּׁוּ הַ גֹּ֖וי לֹ֥א...
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...
Gather (a) yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (a) He exhorts them to repentance, and wills them to descend into themselves and gather themselves, lest they be scattered...
_Together, in love. (St. Jerome) --- Hebrew, "gather" the wood or chaff, (Calmet) your wicked deeds, lest they prove the fuel of fire, chap. i. 18. (Haydock) --- He addresses the Jews and all their ne...
"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...
CONTENTS The Prophet in this chapter is making a very pressing exhortation to repentance, and to the seeking of the Lord. He afterwards speaks of judgments to the nations around....
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, after having spoken of God’s wrath, and shown how terrible it would be, and also how near, now exhorts the Jews to repentance, and thus mitigates the severity of his former doctrine, prov...
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...
GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER,.... This is said to the people of the Jews in general; that whereas the judgments of God were coming upon them, as predicted in the preceding chapter Zephaniah 1:1, it was...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Ver. 1. _Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together_] _Excutite vos, iterumque excutite._ Fan yourselves, yea, fan yourse...
_Gather yourselves together_, &c. Assemble yourselves to make a public humiliation: see Joel 2:16. _O nation not desired_ Or _coveted_, as the word נכס Šproperly signifies. The Vulgate renders it, _no...
THE EXHORTATION AND THE DOOM OF THE PHILISTINES...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, as for a penitential assembly with earnest self-examination, O NATION NOT DESIRED, literally, "that does not grow pale," which till now has felt no se...
NOT DESIRED:...
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...
ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2 An exhortation to repentance, ZEPHANIAH 2:1. The judgment of the Philistines, ZEPHANIAH 2:4 of Moab and Ammon, ZEPHANIAH 2:8\\, of Ethiopia,...
Zephaniah 2:1 together H7197 (H8703) together H7197 (H8798) undesirable H3700 (H8737) nation H1471 gather together -...
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...
DESIRED Literally, that hath not shame. Compare (Jeremiah 3:3)....
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:4; Esther 4:16; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 26:8