THE DAY OF JEHOVAH A DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR GUILTY JUDAH The prophecy opens with the declaration of universal destruction for all living things. IN his way the prophet impresses upon his hearers the completeness and appalling nature of the impending judgment. In the succeeding vv. he defines in detail... [ Continue Reading ]
STUMBLINGBLOCKS] or, slightly correcting the text to bring it into harmony with the rest of the v., 'I will destroy the wicked.'... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL ALSO STRETCH OUT MINE HAND] cp. the similar powerful refrain in Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 9:21. All traces of Baalism, together with the 'Chemarim' (RV), the black-robed priests of Baal are first to be destroyed, as well as the wicked priests of Jehovah, who degraded His w... [ Continue Reading ]
LEAP ON THE THRESHOLD] Evidently here also the crime is that of the members of the court, perhaps a foreign religious custom: cp. 1 Samuel 5:5. But as there is no reference to religious customs in the context, the words may simply refer to the retainers of the king, who were in constant attendance a... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKTESH] or, 'the mortar': the local designation of the merchants' quarter, which probably lay in the Tyropœan valley, W. of the Temple area.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEARCH.. WITH CANDLES] i.e. thoroughly, as was required in the poorly-lighted houses of Palestine: cp, Luke 15:8. SETTLED ON THEIR LEES] i.e. have received no infusion of new and noble teachings, but retain the old fallacies: cp. Jeremiah 48:11; Jeremiah 48:12. 13. Cp. Amos 5:11; Micah 6:15. 14, 1... [ Continue Reading ]