Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 2:15
This — So the prophet triumphs over her. There is none — None like me, or that can contend with me.
This — So the prophet triumphs over her. There is none — None like me, or that can contend with me.
Verse Zephaniah 2:15. _THIS_ IS _THE REJOICING CITY_] The city in which mirth, jocularity, and pleasure, reigned without interruption. AND _WAG HIS HAND_] Will point her out as a mark and monument of...
This utter desolation is “the rejoicing city” (so unlike is it, that there is need to point out that it is the same); this is she, who was full of joy, exulting exceedingly, but in herself, not in God...
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...
WAG HIS HAND. Idiom expressive of derision....
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....
A _ḳinah_or elegy on Nineveh. _the rejoicing city_ R.V. THE JOYOUS CITY. there is _none beside me_ there is NONE ELSE. She felt unique in her power and splendour. The same words are used of herself...
_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...
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...
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth...
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...
The earlier part of this verse is doubtless based on Isaiah 47:8, “Hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am and none else beside me.”...
(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...
זֹ֞֠את הָ עִ֤יר הָ עַלִּיזָה֙ הַ יֹּושֶׁ֣בֶת
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...
This [is] the (i) rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that...
_Beside, or equal. This was true, Jonas i. 2. (Calmet) --- The founder intended that no city should ever equal it. (Diodorus ii.) St. Jerome applies what is here said of Ninive to the Church in the ti...
REFLECTIONS READER! behold the different aspect this scripture holds forth us, and pause in the view! May we not ask, and ask with trembling, on hearing those awful judgments of God; if the righteous...
"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...
He seems to have added this by way of anticipation, lest the magnificent splendor of the city Nineveh should frighten the Jews, as though it were exempt from all danger. The Prophet therefore reminds...
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...
THIS IS THE REJOICING CITY THAT DWELT CARELESSLY,.... Once exceeding populous, and the inhabitants full of mirth and gaiety, abounding with wealth and riches, and indulging themselves in all carnal de...
This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that pas...
_This is the rejoicing city_ This is supposed to be said by those who should pass by it after its desolation; _that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me_ Its inhabitants indulged them...
This is the rejoicing city, where shouts of gaiety were heard without ceasing, THAT DWELT CARELESSLY, in perfect security, THAT SAID IN HER HEART, in proud self-confidence, I AM, AND THERE IS NONE BES...
THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
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...
THIS IS THE REJOICING CITY: we may suppose the prophet, or the Jews, or all passengers, standing still and wondering, nay, upbraiding Nineveh, all mirth and jollity once, but now all sorrow and grief....
Zephaniah 2:15 rejoicing H5947 city H5892 dwelt H3427 (H8802) securely H983 said H559 (H8802) heart H3824 besides
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 2:15 The Assyrian capital, Nineveh, formerly known as an EXULTANT CITY, will be deprived of its safety and security. In its pride (v. Zephania
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...
1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8; Ezekiel 27:36; Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:9;...