Zephaniah 2 - Introduction
_AN EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE. THE JUDGMENT OF THE PHILISTINES, OF MOAB AND AMMON, OF ETHIOPIA AND ASSYRIA._ _Before Christ 612._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AN EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE. THE JUDGMENT OF THE PHILISTINES, OF MOAB AND AMMON, OF ETHIOPIA AND ASSYRIA._ _Before Christ 612._... [ Continue Reading ]
O NATION NOT DESIRED— _O nation, that receiveth not instruction._ Houbigant renders this and the next verse as follows: _O nation without knowledge._ Zephaniah 2:2. Before you be carried away as the chaff, when the day shall come; before the fierce anger, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HAVE WROUGHT HIS JUDGMENT— _Keep his judgments._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GAZA SHALL BE FORSAKEN— _For, lo, Gaza is forsaken;_ and so throughout, in the present tense: as much as to say, "Behold, the cities of the Philistines are taken and plundered by this victorious people; therefore your destruction draweth nigh." After Psammiticus king of Egypt, who took the citie... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHERETHITES— _The Cretans._ They are supposed to have been a colony of the Philistines. See the note on 1 Samuel 30:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE COAST SHALL BE FOR THE REMNANT— That is, the Maccabees who subdued the Philistines and the Ammonites. See Zephaniah 2:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN THE BREEDING OF NETTLES— _A forsaken place of nettles._ Houbigant. Instead of _my people,_ in the last clause, Houbigant reads _my nation._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WILL FAMISH, &C.— _He will dissipate._ Houbigant. But Bishop Warburton observes, that the expression, as it stands in our version, is noble, and alludes to the popular superstitions of Paganism, which conceived that the gods were nourished by the steam of sacrifices. But when were the heathen... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL MAKE NINEVEH A DESOLATION— Dr. Prideaux observes, that, Chyniladanus being king of the Assyrian and Babylonian empire, Nabopolassar his general took the latter from him, in the sixteenth year of Josiah; fourteen years after which, Sarracus the king was slain, and Nineveh destroyed, which comple... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FLOCKS SHALL LIE DOWN, &C.— _And flocks of every kind of animals shall lie down in the midst of her: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the upper chapiters or carved work of it: the voice of birds shall be heard through the window; the crow shall sit in the thresholds; for her roo... [ Continue Reading ]