Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Zephaniah 2:9
Verse 9. The breeding of nettles] That is, their land shall become desolate, and be a place for nettles, thorns, c., to flourish in, for want of cultivation.
Verse 9. The breeding of nettles] That is, their land shall become desolate, and be a place for nettles, thorns, c., to flourish in, for want of cultivation.
THEREFORE AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS - Life especially belongs to God, since He Alone is Underived Life. “He hath life in Himself” John 5:26. He is entitled “the living God,” as here, in tacit...
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...
Into the natural context of the passage a later writer has woven a prophecy of vengeance on Moab and Ammon for their revilings and insults heaped upon Judah (on the day of Jerusalem's downfall), For t...
SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. [is] the oracle of Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3. THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 29:23. SHALL BE AS SODOM. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen...
Jehovah's oath by Himself, _as I live_, is rare in early writings, but very common in Ezekiel. _Moab shall be as Sodom_ The vicinity of the two peoples or at least of Moab to the Dead Sea may have su...
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...
_GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MOABITES AND AMMONITES -- ZEPHANIAH 2:8-11:_ God next dealt with the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, Judah's neighbors to the east. These heathen nations had in...
EVEN THE BREEDING OF NETTLES— _A forsaken place of nettles._ Houbigant. Instead of _my people,_ in the last clause, Houbigant reads _my nation._...
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...
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual deso...
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...
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:...
(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...
(8-11) The sentence against Moab and Ammon, the descendants of Lot and the enemies of God’s people, even in the post-exilic period, comp. Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 4:3;...
THE BREEDING OF NETTLES. — Better, _an inheritance of nettles._ The propriety of illustrating the fate of Moab and Ammon by that of the cities of the plain is the greater in that Lot, the ancestor of...
לָכֵ֣ן חַי ־אָ֡נִי נְאֻם֩ יְהוָ֨ה צְבָאֹ֜ות א
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...
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...
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...
_Dryness. Septuagint, "Damascus shall be abandoned as a heap on the barn-floor, and disappearing for an age." (Haydock) --- This city is threatened with the rest, Isaias xvii. 1. (Calmet) --- Ever. Se...
"I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. (9) Therefore as I live, saith th...
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...
In order to cheer the miserable Jews by some consolation, God said, in what we considered yesterday, that the wantonness of Moab was known to him; he now adds, that he would visit with punishment the...
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...
THEREFORE [AS] I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The Lord here swears by himself, by his life; partly to show how provoked he was at, and how grievously he resented, the injuries...
Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual d...
_I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of Ammon_ These countries were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem: see the places referred to in the...
THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the supreme Ruler of the world, SURELY MOAB SHALL BE AS SODOM, AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMAN AS GAMORRAH, being overwhelmed by the destruct...
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...
AS I LIVE; the most solemn oath, fit for none but God himself to use: see EZEKIEL 14:16. SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, who have all things at my disposal, and can arm all creatures against these proud revi...
Zephaniah 2:9 live H2416 Says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 Moab H4124 Sodom...
MOAB AND AMMON (ZEPHANIAH 2:8). Zephaniah 2:8 “I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the children of Ammon, With which they have reproached my people, And magnified themselves a...
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...
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:...
_I have heard the reproach of Moab._ THE PERSECUTION OF THE GOOD I. That good men are often subject to annoyances from the ungodly world. “I have heard the reproach [abuse] of Moab, and the revilings...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:9 AS I LIVE strengthens an oath that God makes. His own existence is the surest thing possible (Isaiah 49:18). For people whose livelihood dep
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 2:8. MOAB] and Ammon rejoiced in the calamity of the Jews. Compare parallel prophecies against Moab (Isaiah 15, 16; Jeremiah 48; Amos 2:1), and Ammon ...
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...
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...
Amos 1:13; Amos 2:1; Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 26:21; Genesis 19:24
Of nettles — Not cultivated, but over — run with nettles. Salt — pits — A dry, barren earth, fit only to dig salt out of. The residue — That return out of Babylon. Possess them — Settle upon those par...