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Zephaniah 1:8

I will punish the princes lit. visit uponthe princes. The princes are the nobles, particularly those entrusted with judicial and similar offices.

the king's children The children of the king are the royal house in general, hardly Josiah's own sons, who in the eighteenth year of his reign were aged ten and twelve (2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 23:36). For "children" Sept. reads houseof the king, a reading which at least suggests the right meaning. The words "children" and "house" are occasionally confused. Sept. reads "house" where Heb. has "children" in Jeremiah 16:15; Eze 2:3; 1 Chronicles 2:10, and on the other hand it reads "children" where Heb. has "house" in Genesis 45:11; Exodus 16:31; Joshua 17:17; Joshua 18:5; Hosea 1:7.

clothed with strange apparel i.e. foreign apparel. It would be the royal family, "behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings" houses" (Matthew 11:8), and the nobility who were given to this practice.

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