Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 2:6
For shepherds — Instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be only cottages for shepherds.
For shepherds — Instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be only cottages for shepherds.
Verse 6. _AND THE SEA-COASTS SHALL BE DWELLINGS_] _Newcome_ considers כרת _keroth_ as a proper name, not _cottages_ or _folds_. The _Septuagint_ have κρητη, _Crete_, and so has the _Syriac_. Abp. _Sec...
THE SEACOAST SHALL BE DWELLINGS AND COTTAGES - o, literally, cuttings or diggings. This is the central meaning of the word; the place of the Cherethites (the cutters off) shall be “cheroth” of shepher...
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...
DWELLINGS. pastures. COTTAGES. pens....
The text of Zephaniah 2:6 is probably in disorder, as the rhythmical balance of the verse is quite obscured. The Sept. also read differently, the words _the sea coast_being wanting in their text. Thes...
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...
_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...
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 the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. AND THE SEA COAST SHALL BE DWELLINGS AND COTTAGES FOR SHEPHERDS, [ nªwot (H5116) kªrot (H3741)] - rather, dwel...
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:...
(4-7) The sentence against the great Philistine strongholds....
(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...
DWELLINGS AND COTTAGES FOR SHEPHERDS. — Better, _places for shepherds_’_ pastures._ In _c_’_rôth_ (best taken as plural of _car,_ “a pasture”) there is a paronomasia on _c_’_rêthîm_ of Zephaniah 2:5....
וְֽ הָיְתָ֞ה חֶ֣בֶל הַ יָּ֗ם נְוֹ֛ת כְּרֹ֥ת
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...
_Shepherds. Merchants shall come no longer, the country being subdued by Nabuchodonosor, and by the Machabees, ver. 7. --- Alexander ruined Gaza. (Curtius iv.)_...
"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...
_‘THE RESTING FLOCK AT EVENTIDE’_ ‘The sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed the...
The Prophet confirms what he has before said respecting the future vengeance of God, which was now nigh at hand to the Moabites and other neighboring nations, who had been continually harassing the mi...
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 THE SEA COAST SHALL BE DWELLINGS [AND] COTTAGES FOR SHEPHERDS,.... That tract of land which lay on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, inhabited by the Philistines, should now become so desolate,...
And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. Ver. 6. _And the sea coasts shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds_] It shall be waste and untilled, an...
_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...
THE EXHORTATION AND THE DOOM OF THE PHILISTINES...
And the seacoast, then teeming with the life of rich commercial cities, SHALL BE DWELLINGS AND COTTAGES FOR SHEPHERDS, dugouts and shanties, or places for pastures where they would carry on the work o...
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 confirms the former, tells us what shall be in those parts; instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be cottages for shepherds watching over their flocks....
Zephaniah 2:6 seacoast H3220 H2256 pastures H5116 shelters H3741 shepherds H7462 (H8802) folds H1448 flocks H6629
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 2:6 The term REMNANT shows two sides of God’s relationship with his people. His judgment will be so severe that only a few survivors (a “remnant”) will remain (v....
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...
Ezekiel 25:5; Isaiah 17:2; Zephaniah 2:14; Zephaniah 2:15...