Schmieder observes that the enumeration of Zephaniah 1:4 extends from gross external to refined internal apostasy. “The Lord will destroy (1) the idols of Baal; (2) their priests; (3) those who openly worship them on housetops; (4) the secret worshippers; (5) those who, without worshipping idols, have apostatised in their hearts; (6) those who are indifferent to religion.”
Verse 6. _THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK_] Who have forsaken the true God, and become idolaters. _NOR INQUIRED FOR HIM_] Have not desired to know his will....
AND THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK FROM - (Literally, have turned themselves back from following after) the Lord From this half-service, the prophet goes on to the avowed neglect of God, by such as wholly...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Day of the Lord, the Day of Judgment _ 1. The judgment of all the world (Zephaniah 1:1) _ 2. The judgment will destroy the evildoers in Judah (Zephaniah 1:4)...
THE DOOM OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. Zephaniah 1:2. Riding as it were on the crest of a tidal wave of destruction, which sweeps off man and beast from the face of the ground, Yahweh stretches His hand aga...
FROM. from after. SOUGHT... ENQUIRED. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29, where the two Hebrew verbs are in the same order, and are rendered "seek... seek"). App-92. LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._...
In this verse also one class of persons is described in two ways: those who have turned away from Jehovah and who do not seek Him. Comp. the prophet's exhortation ch. Zephaniah 2:2, "seek ye the Lord,...
_GOD'S WRATH COMING UPON JUDAH -- ZEPHANIAH 1:4-6:_ God promised that He would reach out to punish Judah and Jerusalem. The punishment would be so great that nothing would remain. Both Baal and the pa...
JUDGEMENT OF JUDAH. Zephaniah 1:4 to Zephaniah 2:3) RV. And I will stretch our my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, an...
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired f...
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 comp...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Assyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For many years, it ruled most of the world. Nahum,...
וְ אֶת ־הַ נְּסֹוגִ֖ים מֵ אַחֲרֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה
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, long...
“THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD” Zephaniah 1:1-18 Zephaniah means hidden of the Lord. He lived in Josiah's reign, and cooperated with that king in his efforts to put down idolatry. His prophecy deals wit...
The first movement of the prophecy is the prophet's declaration of the coming judgment of Jehovah. This he announced in general terms, then described more particularly its procedure and character. Thi...
O "I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. (3) I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks wit...
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 seems here to include, as it were, in one bundle, the proud despisers of God, as well as those idolaters of whom he had spoken. It may yet be, that he describes the same persons in differe...
The prophet begins by declaring that the land should be reduced to complete desolation; afterwards, that Judah, Jerusalem, their false gods, and their priests, should be smitten by the hand of Jehovah...
AND THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK FROM THE LORD,.... Who once were worshippers of him, but now become apostates, and had turned their backs on him and his worship. Some think this describes those who rene...
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him. Ver. 6. _And them that are turned back from the Lord_] Not gross idolaters, but yet treac...
_I will also stretch out my hand upon Judah_ I will manifest my power upon Judah, as I have done upon Israel. _And I will cut off the remnant of Baal_ The altars, or places of worship, dedicated to Ba...
THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
and them that are turned back from the Lord, drawing back from Jehovah, AND THOSE THAT HAVE NOT SOUGHT THE LORD NOR ENQUIRED FOR HIM, both the openly wicked and the irreligious being included in the l...
1-6 Ruin is coming, utter ruin; destruction from the Almighty. The servants of God all proclaim, There is no peace for the wicked. The expressions are figurative, speaking every where desolation; the...
THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK; apostates, who have forsaken the Lord and his worship, or that are turned atheists, or that in matter of religion have taken up not what is purest and truest, but what is ne...
Zephaniah 1:6 back H5472 (H8737) from H310 LORD H3068 sought H1245 (H8765) LORD H3068 inquired H1875 ...
GOD'S PARTICULAR JUDGMENT WILL AT THIS TIME BE APPLIED TO JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 1:4). Zephaniah 1:4 “And I will stretch out my hand on Judah, And on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And...
CONTENTS: Coming judgment on Judah prefiguring the coming day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God, Zephaniah, Josiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not improve the presence of God with them as a Father, may e...
Zephaniah 1:1. _The Word of the Lord came to Zephaniah._ The glorious person of Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God; so indeed is the oft-repeated gloss of the Chaldaic in all the book of Chronicles, w...
_The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah._ THE WORD I. THE DISTINGUISHING CAPACITY OF MAN, AND THE WONDERFUL CONDESCENSION OF GOD. 1. The distinguishing capacity of man. To receive the word...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:2 Judgment Coming against Judah. God first directs his attention against all living beings (vv. Zephaniah 1:2). He then addresses Judah, r
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 1:4.] Judgment, especially upon Judah. STRETCH] Not only threaten, but exert power to injury. REMNANT] Statues, images dedicated to Baal, domestic and tutelary god of the P...
EXPOSITION. ZEPHANIAH 1:1 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD, AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR....
Zephaniah Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Zephaniah. The opening verse tells us that, This is the word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, who was the son of Gedali...
1 Samuel 15:11; 2 Peter 2:18; Ezekiel 3:20; Hebrews 10:38; Hebr