Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 2:5
The inhabitants — All the Philistines. Cherethites — Or destroyers, men that were stout, fierce, and terrible to their neighbours. O Canaan — That part that the Philistines kept by force from the Jews.
The inhabitants — All the Philistines. Cherethites — Or destroyers, men that were stout, fierce, and terrible to their neighbours. O Canaan — That part that the Philistines kept by force from the Jews.
Verse 5. _THE SEA-COASTS, THE NATION OF THE CHERETHITES_] The _sea-coasts_ mean all the country lying on the Mediterranean coast from Egypt to Joppa and Gaza. The _Cherethites _- the _Cretans_ who wer...
The “woe” having been pronounced on the five cities apart, now falls upon the whole nation of the Cherethites or Philistines. The Cherethites are only named as equivalent to the Philistines, probably...
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...
SEA COAST: or, country by the sea....
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...
_the sea coast_ Or, THE REGION BY THE SEA. The reference is to the strip of territory belonging to the Philistines; Ezekiel 25:16. The Cherethites are the Philistines, or at least those along the coas...
_GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES -- ZEPHANIAH 2:4-7:_ If Judah failed to repent she would face God's judgment. The heathen nations would also face the Judgment of the Almighty. Scripture pictur...
THE CHERETHITES— _The Cretans._ They are supposed to have been a colony of the Philistines. See the note on 1 Samuel 30:14....
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...
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no...
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...
CHERETHITES] a synonym of Philistines, as in 1 Samuel 30:14; Ezekiel 25:16. 6, 7. The Philistine coast plain shall be desolate and given up to shepherds and their flocks. 8. The nations of Moab and A...
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:...
THE CHERETHITES. — Perhaps Cretans. See on 1 Samuel 30:14; Ezekiel 25:16, where the same term is applied to the Philistines. CANAAN originally means “low-lying ground.” It here indicates the low mari...
(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...
(4-7) The sentence against the great Philistine strongholds....
הֹ֗וי יֹֽשְׁבֵ֛י חֶ֥בֶל הַ יָּ֖ם גֹּ֣וי כְּרֵ
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...
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...
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea (d) coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall b...
_Coast. Literally, "line," (Haydock) with which land was measured. (Calmet) --- Reprobates. Hebrew cerethim, (Haydock) or Cerethi, of whom David's guards were formed. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "people...
"For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (5) Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cher...
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...
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...
WOE UNTO THE INHABITANTS OF THE SEA COASTS, THE NATION OF THE CHERETHITES,.... Which is a name of the Philistines in general, as Kimchi and Ben Melech; or these were a particular tribe belonging to th...
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no...
_For Gaza shall be forsaken_ The prophet digresses here to foretel the fate of some cities and nations bordering on Judea; probably with a view to show that when Judea should be invaded, and Jerusalem...
Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast, of the plains along the Mediterranean sea, THE NATION OF THE CHERETHITES, for a part of the Philistines, at least, traced their descent to the ancient people...
THE EXHORTATION AND THE DOOM OF THE PHILISTINES...
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...
WOE UNTO THE INHABITANTS! now all the Philistines are threatened, whereas before he named only those four cities. OF THE SEA-COASTS; the coasts of the great or western sea, now the Mediterranean, on w...
Zephaniah 2:5 Woe H1945 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) seacoast H3220 H2256 nation H1471 Cherethites H3774 word H1697 LO
THE PHILISTINES (ZEPHANIAH 2:4). Zephaniah 2:4 ‘For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. Woe to the inhabitants of...
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:...
_For Gaza shall be forsaken._ THE SINNER’S BALEFUL INFLUENCE, AND GOD’S DISPOSAL OF ALL I. The calamities falling upon one sinner often involve others. The ruin of the Hebrew nation would be most ca...
ZEPHANIAH 2:4 Nations Warned. As in Amos 1:3, this passage first focuses on Israel’s neighbors and enemies (Zephaniah 2:4), whom Judah would
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:5 The SEACOAST indicates the location of the PHILISTINES, from which the name “Palestine” is derived. They lived to the southwest of Judah. They are also called Cheret
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 2:4. FOR] The punishment of neighbouring states a warning. Five nations, from all quarters of the earth, to indicate universality of judgment. GAZA] and cities of Philistine...
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 3:1; Amos 5:1; Ezekiel 25:16; Jeremiah 47:7; Joshua 13:3;...