Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophet — So called, false prophets. Light — Unstable and inconstant. Violence to the law — Wresting it by perverse interpretation.
Her prophet — So called, false prophets. Light — Unstable and inconstant. Violence to the law — Wresting it by perverse interpretation.
Verse 4. _HER PROPHETS_ ARE _LIGHT_ AND _TREACHEROUS PERSONS_] They have no _seriousness_, no _deep conviction_ of the awful nature of their _office_, no _concern_ for the _immortal souls_ of the peo...
HER PROPHETS ARE LIGHT - , boiling and bubbling, up, like water boiling over , empty boasters claiming the gift of prophecy, which they have not; “boldly and rashly pouring out what they willed as the...
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...
THE SIN OF JERUSALEM CONTRASTED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF YAHWEH. From scenes of doom and desolation we are now led back in thought to the sins that drew down Yahweh's hand in wrath. Despite His const...
LIGHT. reckless. TREACHEROUS PERSONS. men (Hebrew. _'enosh,_ App-14.) of treacheries; placing the emphasis on the treachery. POLLUTED. profaned. Hebrew. _halal._ Not the same word as in Zephaniah 3:1...
_Her prophets_are _light_ Both the idea and the expression find a parallel in Jeremiah 23:32, "I am against them that prophesy false dreams, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their ligh...
Zephaniah 3:1-8. Renewed threat against Jerusalem in particular Ch. 3 returns to Jerusalem. The city is reproached as rebellious, polluted, and full of oppression (Zephaniah 3:1); disobedient to God...
_JERUSALEM REBELLED AGAINST GOD -- ZEPHANIAH 3:1-7:_ The people of Jerusalem and the entire nation had rebelled against God. Jerusalem had become a disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city. Those that fa...
CHAPTER XXII COMFORT AND CONSOLATION REAFFIRMATION OF JUDGEMENT. Zephaniah 3:1-8 RV. Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not co...
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. HER PROPHETS ARE LIGHT - persons in whose life and teaching there is no...
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...
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...
III. (1-4) The prophet denounces the corruption and moral obduracy which characterise all classes in Jerusalem. This denunciation comes in with startling abruptness. The prophet does not even name th...
LIGHT AND TREACHEROUS PERSONS. — Better, _braggarts and men of treachery. _...
נְבִיאֶ֨יהָ֙ פֹּֽחֲזִ֔ים אַנְשֵׁ֖י בֹּֽגְדֹ֑ות כֹּהֲנֶ֨יהָ֙ חִלְּלוּ...
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...
_Senseless. Protestants, "light," or (Haydock) windy and inconstant. There were too many false prophets (Calmet) during the minority of Josias. (Calmet)_...
"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (2) She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. (3) Her princes w...
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 again reverts to the pollution and filth of which he has spoken in the first verse. He shows that he had not without reason cried against the polluted city; for though the Jews used their...
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...
HER PROPHETS [ARE] LIGHT [AND TREACHEROUS PERSONS,.... The false prophets, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it: these seem to design the lawyers spoken of in the New Testament, whose business it was t...
Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. Ver. 4. _Her prophets are light_] Rash, headlong, futilous, debauched...
_Her princes are roaring lions_ Are like devouring lions, who roar in the act of seizing their prey. _Her judges are evening wolves_ Like so many beasts of prey. The princes and judges devour the peop...
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, boastful and faithless knaves; HER PRIESTS HAVE POLLUTED THE SANCTUARY, desecrating the Temple by their neglect of the prescribed sacrifices or by their...
THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...
1-7 The holy God hates sin most in those nearest to him. A sinful state is, and will be, a woful state. Yet they had the tokens of God's presence, and all the advantages of knowing his will, with the...
HER PROPHETS; by education, profession, and unwarranted practice called so, false prophets; such Zedekiah, and probably Chenaanah, &c., were. Are light; unstable and inconstant, ready to comply with h...
Zephaniah 3:4 prophets H5030 insolent H6348 (H8802) treacherous H900 people H582 priests H3548 polluted H2490 (H8765)
THE CONDITION OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 3:1). Zephaniah 3:1 ‘Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city. She did not obey the voice. She did not receive correction....
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...
_Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! _ A RELIGIOUS CITY TERRIBLY DEGENERATE I. A professedly religious city terribly degenerated. 1. The princes are mentioned. They are...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:1 God’s people cannot think that they will emerge unscathed on the day of the Lord. If they sin (vv. Zephaniah 3:1) and are shameless (v....
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:4 Religious officials are also condemned, both PROPHETS and PRIESTS. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] WOE] to Jerusalem; others, Nineveh. FILTHY] From a word, to straighten oneself; hence, to rebel, to be refractory. ZEPHANIAH 3:2. VOICE] In law and prophets. CORRECTION] Instruction...
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...
1 John 4:1; 1 Samuel 2:12; 1 Samuel 2:22; 2 Corinthians 11:13;...