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Zephaniah 2:6-7

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. Zephaniah 2:9; Zephaniah 3:13; Isaiah 17:6). All hope is not lost, however, since those few refugees will continue the existence of God’s people. God will be mindful of Judah, taking note of their need and restoring the blessings they have given up (Zephaniah 3:20). pastures... shepherds. After the Philistine cities have been destroyed, the area will be repopulated by God’s people (Zephaniah 2:7), who will live in peace.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DWELLINGS. pastures. COTTAGES. pens....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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:...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (4-7) The sentence against the great Philistine strongholds....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְֽ הָיְתָ֞ה חֶ֣בֶל הַ יָּ֗ם נְוֹ֛ת כְּרֹ֥ת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Shepherds. Merchants shall come no longer, the country being subdued by Nabuchodonosor, and by the Machabees, ver. 7. --- Alexander ruined Gaza. (Curtius iv.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EXHORTATION AND THE DOOM OF THE PHILISTINES...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 2:6 seacoast H3220 H2256 pastures H5116 shelters H3741 shepherds H7462 (H8802) folds H1448 flocks H6629

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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:...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 25:5; Isaiah 17:2; Zephaniah 2:14; Zephaniah 2:15...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For shepherds — Instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be only cottages for shepherds....

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