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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 2:4-15

C. judgment on Israel’s neighbors 2:4-15Since all people need to seek the Lord (Zephaniah 2:3), Zephaniah revealed that judgment was headed for the nations around Judah as well as for Judah. He selected nations that lived in four directions from Judah to represent all the nations. Philistia lay west of Judah, Moab and Ammon east, Ethiopia south, and Assyria north."He [God] would also judge nations that were near as well as nations that were far away. Those near would be plundered and possessed... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 2:8-11

2. Judgment coming on Moab and Ammon 2:8-11 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 2:10

Yahweh of armies would bring this fate on these nations because of their pride and arrogant ridicule of His people Israel (cf. Isaiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 48:29; Ezekiel 25:5-6; Ezekiel 25:8). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 2:1-15

Jehovah’s impending Judgment upon Judah’s Neighbours and FoesThe universal note which is struck in Zephaniah 1:2-3 is now further amplified. Jehovah’s agents of punishment, the Scythians, shall carry desolation along the Philistine plain to Egypt (as they actually did), and to the nations E. of the Jordan and Dead Sea, and even to distant Assyria, which in 605 b.c. fell before them.1-3. Exhortation to repentance. The Heb. text is exceedingly doubtful. It is also not clear whether or not... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 2:4-15

(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 their faith in Him who orders the destinies of all mankind. Also, as being inflicted on hostile peoples, they are in Israel’s favour, and ought therefore to elicit gratitude. But more especially are they all steps towards the establishment of Jehovah’s supremacy, and the inclusion of the Gentiles in... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 2:8-11

(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; Nehemiah 4:7.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:4-15

NINIVE DELENDAZephaniah 2:4-15THERE 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 proclaimed. But though dated from the same period as that prophecy, circa 626, these oracles are best treated by themselves.These oracles originally formed one passage in the well-known Qinah or elegiac measure; but this has suffered sadly both by dilapidation and rebuilding. How mangled the text is... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Zephaniah 2:1-15

CHAPTERS 2-3:8 The Call to Repentance in View of the Judgment 1. The call to repentance (Zephaniah 2:1-3 ) 2. The judgment of the Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4-7 ) 3. The judgment of Moab and Ammon (Zephaniah 2:8-10 ) 4. The judgment of the other nations (Zephaniah 2:11-15 ) 5. The woe and warning to Jerusalem and His people (Zephaniah 3:1-8 ) Zephaniah 2:1-3 . As we found it in Joel, so it is here. In view of the coming of the day, the call goes forth to the nation to humble themselves... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:1-15

ZEPHANIAH DIVINE DEVASTATION AND PROMISE Little is known of the personal history of Zephaniah beyond the two facts in the first verse of his prophecy, the first bearing on his ancestry and the second on the period of his ministry. About fifty years have elapsed since Nahum, and Hezekiah has been succeeded by three of his descendants (see 2 Kings 20-21). Manasseh and Amon were idolatrous and wicked, but Josiah now upon the throne, is righteous and God-fearing. The story of his reign is in the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Zephaniah 2:1-15

The Candle of the Lord Zephaniah 1-3 "The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah" ( Zep 1:1 ). Observe that the prophets never professed to tell what word of the Lord came to anybody else. That is the vital point; that is the point which we have all forgotten. Read the introductions which the men themselves wrote: where do they find their texts? In the mouth of the Lord. When does any prophet arise to say, "I am going to preach to you to-day from the words of some other prophet?"... read more