Zephaniah 2:12
What meaning of the zephaniah 2:12 in the Bible?
What does Zephaniah 2:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword."
What does Zephaniah 2:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword."
Verse Zephaniah 2:12. _YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO_] Nebuchadnezzar subdued these. See Jeremiah 46:2; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:4; Ezekiel 30:10. See also on Amos 9:1....
YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO, YE SHALL BE SLAIN BY MY SWORD - Literally, “Ye Ethiopians also, the slain of My sword are they.” Having summoned them to His throne, God speaks of them, not to them anymore; perhap...
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...
YE. See note on "For", Zephaniah 2:4....
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...
_JUDGMENT AGAINST ETHIOPIA AND ASSYRIA -- ZEPHANIAH 2:12-15:_ The Ethiopians had also made light of God's people. They likewise would feel the vengeance of divine wrath. God completed His circle of Ju...
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...
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO, YE SHALL BE SLAIN BY MY SWORD. Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar (God's sword, as was the Assyrian, ) conquered Egypt, with which...
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: • (the *LOR...
(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...
גַּם ־אַתֶּ֣ם כּוּשִׁ֔ים חַֽלְלֵ֥י חַרְבִּ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃...
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 wo...
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...
_Ethiopians. Hebrew Cushim, denotes also the Arabs, &c., who fell a prey to the Chaldeans. (Calmet)_...
"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...
The Prophet extends farther the threatened vengeance, and says, that God would also render to the Ethiopians the reward which they deserved; for they had also harassed the chosen people. But if God pu...
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...
YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO,.... Or, "as for ye Ethiopians also" h; not the Ethiopians in Africa beyond Egypt, at a distance from the land of Israel, and the countries before mentioned; but the inhabitants of...
Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword. Ver. 12. _Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword_] Which is long enough to reach you, though far remote. The poets feign that Jupiter w...
_Ye Ethiopians also shall be slain_ Here a denunciation of divine wrath is uttered against the Ethiopians, as, Zephaniah 2:8, against the Moabites and Ammonites. It is said that they should be slain b...
THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
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 t...
The prophet doth not speak of the African Ethiopians, south of Egypt, but of the Arabian Ethiopians, much nearer to Canaan, whose country was called Cusaea, with the addition Ethiopia Cusaea. See HABA...
Zephaniah 2:12 Ethiopians H3569 also H1992 slain H2491 sword H2719 Ethiopians - Isaiah 18:1-7, Isaiah 20:4-5, Isaiah 43:3; Jeremiah 46:9-10; Ezekiel 30:4-9 my - Psalms 17:13;...
THE ETHIOPIANS (ZEPHANIAH 2:12). Zephaniah 2:12 “You Ethiopians also, you will be slain by my sword.” This brief reference takes us by surprise. The Ethiopians (Cushi) would probably be the furthes...
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...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:12 CUSHITES are Ethiopians and other northeastern African peoples (Zephaniah 3:10; Isaiah 11:11). The reference may include Egypt, since Cushite kings sometimes ruled Egy...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 2:12.] Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia was closely allied (Jeremiah 46:2; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:5). THE DOOM OF ETHIOPIA.—_Zephaniah...
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 r...
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...
Ezekiel 30:4; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 18:1; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 43:3; Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremiah 46:9; Jeremiah 47:6;...
By my sword — The Chaldeans are called God's sword; because God employed them....