Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 3:20
A praise — So the universal church of the first — born will be, in the great day. And then the Israel of God be made a name and a praise to all eternity.
A praise — So the universal church of the first — born will be, in the great day. And then the Israel of God be made a name and a praise to all eternity.
Verse Zephaniah 3:20. _AT THAT TIME_] _First_, when the _seventy_ years of the Babylonish captivity shall terminate. "I will bring you again" to your own land; and this restoration shall be a type of...
AT THAT TIME WILL I BRING YOU IN - that is, into the one fold, the one Church, the one “Household of God, even in the time that I gather you.” “That time” is the whole time of the Gospel; the one “day...
CHAPTER 3:8-20 Judgment and Glory _ 1. The waiting for the end (Zephaniah 3:8) _ 2. The glory that follows (Zephaniah 3:9) Zephaniah 3:8. “Therefore wait for me, saith Jehovah, for the day when I a...
THE DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM, AND RENOWN OF REDEEMED ISRAEL. Zephaniah 3:8; Zephaniah 3:11. Let Yahweh's faithful people wait patiently till the day when He shall stand as a witness against the nation...
FOR. WILL MAKE YOU, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 26:19). App-92. TURN BACK YOUR CAPTIVITY. Hebrew, plural. Idiom for restoring blessings as aforetime. See note on Deuteronomy 30:3, SAITH...
The Joy of the Redeemed People in the Lord's Presence among them The prophet looks forward to the time when all Zion's afflictions shall be over, when she shall be redeemed and all her captive childr...
_even in the time that I gather you_ The sense is probably as R.V., AND AT THAT TIME WILL I GATHER YOU, though the language of the original is very anomalous. _among all people of the earth_ ALL THE...
_PROMISES FROM GOD -- ZECHARIAH 3:18-20:_ The message of Zephaniah is simple; Judgment is coming, but deliverance will come to those who are willing to repent. God promised that He would gather that r...
PORTRAIT OF THE REDEEMED. Zephaniah 3:14-20 RV. Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. Jehovah hath taken away thy judgements, he h...
At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I I WILL MAKE YOU A NAME AND A PRAISE - I will...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL RULERS OF JERUSALEM, AND ITS ULTIMATE PURIFICATION AND RESTORATION Like Amos and Micah, the prophet sternly denounces the crimes of the ruling classes in Jerusalem, points o...
WHEN I BRING AGAIN (RV) YOUR CAPTIVITY] i.e. when I restore your captives: cp. Psalms 53:6; Psalms 126:1; Psalms 126:2....
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 (It will be) very sad for the city (called Jerusalem). (It has become a city where people) do not obey (God). It (is) dirt...
(14-20) The blessedness of Jerusalem when she has been thus brought through suffering to glory....
See Deuteronomy 30:3, _et seq._...
בָּ † עֵ֤ת הַ הִיא֙ אָבִ֣יא אֶתְכֶ֔ם...
SO AS BY FIRE Zephaniah 3:1 THE third chapter of the Book of Zephaniah consists of two sections, of which only the first, Zephaniah 3:1, is a genuine work of the prophet; while the second, Zephaniah...
FULLNESS OF SALVATION Zephaniah 3:1-20 _The sins of Jerusalem_, Zephaniah 3:1-7. Uninfluenced by judgments upon other nations, Jerusalem pursued her course, morally impure, oppressive, refusing instr...
In this chapter the prophet yet more clearly set forth the sin of the people, and spoke of the hopelessness of the case from the human standpoint. This gave him his opportunity to announce the victory...
_Bring. Septuagint, "do good to you." (Haydock) --- Praise. All shall speak well of you who have been lately dishonoured, when I shall take both Gentiles and Jews for my spouse after the captivity, wh...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED Lord! how delightful is it to trace the footsteps of thy grace by the ministry of thy servants, in teaching and leading thy Church in all ages! How truly condescending was it, O Lo...
"Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. (15) The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Isra...
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 repeats the same things, with some change in the words; and not without reason, because no one of them thought that the Jews, who were cast as it were into the grave, would ever come forth again, a...
SUMMARY TO ZEPHANIAH Amid this judgment of the nation Jerusalem holds the chief place. In chapter 3, the Spirit of God, while laying open the iniquity which occasioned it, turns towards the remnant, a...
AT THAT TIME I WILL BRING YOU [AGAIN], EVEN IN THE TIME THAT I GATHER YOU,.... That is, at the time that the Lord will gather them in the effectual calling to himself and to his church, he will return...
At that time will I bring you [again], even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, sait...
_I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly_ I will collect together those Israelites who are dispersed in their several captivities, both that of Babylon, and those of following ti...
At that time will I bring you again, the calling of the Lord to join His Church being an act of His mercy, EVEN IN THE TIME THAT I GATHER YOU, in His Church; FOR I WILL MAKE YOU A NAME AND A PRAISE AM...
THE SALVATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION...
14-20 After the promises of taking away sin, follow promises of taking away trouble. When the cause is removed, the effect will cease. What makes a people holy, will make them happy. The precious pro...
This verse is a repetition of the promise for the greater assurance of it, and seems to add but little to what was before promised, unless it be the speediness of what God doth for them, and the compr...
Zephaniah 3:20 time H6256 bring H935 (H8686) time H6256 gather H6908 (H8763) give H5414 (H8799) fame...
THE SING OF THE REDEEMED (ZEPHANIAH 3:14). Zephaniah 3:14 ‘Sing, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel, Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem, YHWH has taken away your jud...
CONTENTS: Jerusalem's moral state in time of Zephaniah. The coming judgment of nations and kingdom blessing for restored Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The end of nations that have continued to...
Zephaniah 3:1. _Woe to the oppressing city,_ to Jerusalem, now polluted with every crime, and every year growing a carcase for the eagles. Zephaniah 3:6. _I have cut off the nations._ The Chaldaic rea...
ZEPHANIAH 3:9 Anticipation of Hope. God the judge is also God the gracious. He intends for the nations and Judah to turn to him (vv. Zephaniah 3:9). This will cause rejoicing (vv....
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:20 God will restore his scattered people. Instead of being shamed for their sin, they will be RENOWNED AND PRAISED (Deuteronomy 26:19
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 3:18.] Those who pined in distance at the time of festivities, shall be gathered together. OF THEE] The people are of thy origin and descent (Isaiah 58:12; Ezra 2:59;...
EXPOSITION. ZEPHANIAH 3:1 § 6. The prophet turns to Jerusalem, and warns her that, if God punishes the heathen, he will not spare the hardened sinners in Judah. ZEPHANIAH 3:1 WOE TO HER! This is ad...
Now the Lord speaks against Jerusalem. Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she receive not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not...
Amos 9:14; Ezekiel 16:53; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:16; Ezekiel 37:21