Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 2:14
All the beasts — All sorts of beasts which are found in those countries. The bittern — A bird that delights in desolate places.
All the beasts — All sorts of beasts which are found in those countries. The bittern — A bird that delights in desolate places.
Verse Zephaniah 2:14. _AND FLOCKS SHALL LIE DOWN IN THE MIDST OF HER_] Nineveh was so completely destroyed, that its situation is not at present even known. The present city of _Mossoul_ is supposed t...
AND FLOCKS SHALL LIE DOWN IN THE MIDST OF HER - No desolation is like that of decayed luxury. It preaches the nothingness of man, the fruitlessness of his toils, the fleetingness of his hopes and enjo...
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...
ALL. all kinds of. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus), App-6. UPPER LINTELS. chapiters, or carved capitals. CEDAR WORK: i.e. the wainscotting....
Threat against Assyria The passage naturally implies that the Assyrian empire had not yet fallen....
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...
_all the beasts of the nations_ Sept. _all the beasts of the earth_, as the phrase usually runs (Genesis 1:24; Psalms 79:2), or beasts of the field. The phrase seems to stand in apposition to _flocks_...
_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...
AND FLOCKS SHALL LIE DOWN, &C.— _And flocks of every kind of animals shall lie down in the midst of her: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the upper chapiters or carved work of it: the...
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 flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolat...
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:...
(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...
BOTH THE CORMORANT.... — Better, _Both the pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge on her pillar capitals,_ these lying strewn upon the ground. THEIR VOICE. — Better, _The voice_ [of the bird] _shall sin...
(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...
וְ רָבְצ֨וּ בְ תֹוכָ֤הּ עֲדָרִים֙ כָּל ־חַיְת
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...
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the (h) cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; de...
Bittern and the urchin. Hebrew kaath and kippod, are terms to us (Haydock) unknown. --- Threshold. Hebrew, "the pomegranates," supposed to be an ornament of the doors. --- Raven. Septuagint also read...
"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 describes here the state of the city and the desolation of the country. He says, that the habitations of flocks would be in the midst of the city Nineveh. The city, we know, was populous;...
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 FLOCKS SHALL LIE DOWN IN THE MIDST OF HER,.... In the midst of the city of Nineveh; in the streets of it, where houses stood, and people in great numbers walked; but now only should be seen the co...
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desola...
_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...
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, the former great city had been leveled to the ground and reverted back to a pasture-ground, ALL THE BEASTS OF THE NATIONS, beasts of all kinds in droves...
THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
CORMORANT: Or, pelican UPPER LINTELS: Or, knops, or chapiters FOR HE SHALL UNCOVER: Or, when he hath uncovered...
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...
Nineveh shall be so razed that flocks of cattle shall lie down in the midst of it, as before of the Philistines, ZEPHANIAH 2:6. ALL THE BEASTS OF THE NATIONS; all sorts of beasts which are found in th...
Zephaniah 2:14 herds H5739 down H7257 (H8804) midst H8432 beast H2416 nation H1471 pelican H6893 bittern H7090 l
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...
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 2:14 THE OWL AND THE HEDGEHOG represent two of the “inhabitants” of what used to be a major city. Humans will be gone; animals and birds will take their place. The underlyi...
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...
Amos 9:1; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 34:11; Jeremiah 22:14; Revelation 1