What does Zephaniah 2:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up."
Verse 4. _GAZA SHALL BE FORSAKEN_] This prophecy is against the _Philistines_. They had been greatly harassed by the kings of Egypt; but were completely ruined by Nebuchadnezzar, who took all Phoenici...
FOR - As a ground for repentance and perseverance, he goes through Pagan nations, upon whom God’s wrath should come. Jerome: “As Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, after visions concerning Judah, turn to othe...
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...
ZEPHANIAH 2. DOOM ON PHILISTIA [MOAB AND AMMON], ETHIOPIA, AND ASSYRIA. Zephaniah 2:1. Having spent its rage on Judah, the storm of Divine judgment sweeps south by the Philistian sea-board, uprooting...
FOR GAZA. Supply the logical _Ellipsis_ (App-6), here, and in verses: Zep 8:12, Zep 8:13, Zephaniah 3:1, thus: "[Mine anger shall be upon Gaza, saith the Lord], For", &c. GAZA... FORSAKEN. Note the F...
_For Gaza shall be forsaken_ The connecting word _for_appears to refer to the exhortation in Zephaniah 2:3: seek the Lord, it may be ye shall be hid, for many shall be overwhelmed. There is an assonan...
_GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES -- ZEPHANIAH 2:4-7:_ If Judah failed to repent she would face God's judgment. The heathen nations would also face the Judgment of the Almighty. Scripture pictur...
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 p...
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...
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. FOR. He makes the punishment awaiting the neighbouring states an a...
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...
In the words “Gaza (_Azzâh_) shall be forsaken (â_zab_)” and “Ekron shall be rooted up (_âkar_)” there is a paronomasia, or play on the words, similar to that in Micah 1:10, _et seq._ AT THE NOON DAY...
כִּ֤י עַזָּה֙ עֲזוּבָ֣ה תִֽהְיֶ֔ה וְ אַשְׁקְלֹ֖ון לִ שְׁמָמָ֑ה אַשְׁדֹּ֗וד בַּֽ † צָּהֳרַ֨יִם֙ יְגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּהָ וְ...
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, lon...
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...
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. Th...
For (c) Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (c) He comforts the faithful in that God would change his punishm...
_Shall be, or "is." The prophets often represent future things as past, to shew the certainty of the event. The destruction of other cities by the Chaldeans, gave the Jews to understand what they had...
"For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (5) Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cher...
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 begins here to console the elect; for when God’s vengeance had passed away, which would only be for a time against them, the heathens and foreigners would find God in their turn to be thei...
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...
FOR GAZA SHALL BE FORSAKEN,.... Therefore seek the Lord; and not to the Philistines, since they would be destroyed, to whom Gaza, and the other cities later mentioned, belonged; so Aben Ezra connects...
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Ver. 4. _For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Askelon, &c._] Here is daint...
_For Gaza shall be forsaken_ The prophet digresses here to foretel the fate of some cities and nations bordering on Judea; probably with a view to show that when Judea should be invaded, and Jerusalem...
THE EXHORTATION AND THE DOOM OF THE PHILISTINES...
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...
FOR; it is time to seek some refuge, high time to seek it in God, for your neighbours, as well as you, shall be destroyed, there shall he no refuge for you among your neighbours. GAZA; a chief city of...
Zephaniah 2:4 Gaza H5804 forsaken H5800 (H8803) Ashkelon H831 desolate H8077 out H1644 (H8762) Ashdod H795 noonday H6672 Ekron H6138 uprooted H6131 (H8735) Gaza - Jeremiah 25:20, Jeremiah 47:1-7;...
THE PHILISTINES (ZEPHANIAH 2:4). Zephaniah 2:4 ‘For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. Woe to the inhabitants of...
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...
_For Gaza shall be forsaken._ THE SINNER’S BALEFUL INFLUENCE, AND GOD’S DISPOSAL OF ALL I. The calamities falling upon one sinner often involve others. The ruin of the Hebrew nation would be most ca...
ZEPHANIAH 2:4 Nations Warned. As in Amos 1:3, this passage first focuses on Israel’s neighbors and enemies (Zephaniah 2:4), whom Judah would have happily joined in criticizing. Then the prophet addres...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 2:4. FOR] The punishment of neighbouring states a warning. Five nations, from all quarters of the earth, to indicate universality of judgment. GAZA] and cities of Philistin...
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...
Amos 1:6; Ezekiel 25:15; Jeremiah 15:8; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1; Jeremiah 6:4; Psalms 91:6; Zechariah 9:5...
For — It is time to seek God; for your neighbours, as well as you, shall be destroyed. Gaza — A chief city of the Philistines. They — The Babylonians. Shall drive — Into captivity. At the noon day — I...