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The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:2-3

§ 2. The prelude, announcing the judgment upon the whole world. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:2

I will utterly consume all things - Better “all.” The word is not limited to “things” “animate” or “inanimate” or “men;” it is used severally of each, according to the context; here, without limitation, of “all.” God and all stand over against one another; God and all which is not of God or in God. God, he says, will utterly consume all from off the land (earth). The prophet sums up in few words the subject of the whole chapter, the judgments of God from his own times to the day of Judgment... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:2-3

Zephaniah 1:2-3. I will utterly consume all things, &c. That is, I will make the land of Judea quite desolate. I will consume man and beast, &c. That is, beasts of the tame and domestic kind. I will consume the fowls of the heaven and the fishes of the sea Or of the waters, as we are wont to speak, for the Jews called every large collection of waters a sea. The meaning is, I will bring a judicial and extraordinary desolation on the land, which shall extend itself even to the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

1:1-3:8 PUNISHMENT OF SINNERSSins of Jerusalem (1:1-18)The prophet opens with a general statement about judgment that probably comes as no surprise to the people of Jerusalem. He announces that God will destroy sin from the earth (1:1-3). What surprises the hearers is Zephaniah’s assertion that God will destroy them, for they too are sinners (4a). Anti-God practices established by Manasseh still exist, such as the worship of Baal, the worship of the stars and the worship of Milcom (Molech).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zephaniah 1:2

utterly consume. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ), for emphasis. Hebrew. 'asoph 'aseph = to end, I end. consume = take away, or make an end of. all. Omit "things" = All; as in Job 42:2 .Psalms 8:6 . Isaiah 44:24 . the land. Figure of speech Pleonasm. ( App-6 ) = the face of the land. land = soil, or ground. saith the Lord = [is] Jehovah's oracle. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:2

"I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.""This is a proclamation of the universal judgment of God."[4] "Ground," as rendered in this verse would be more clearly rendered "earth" as in the Revised Standard Version." I will utterly sweep everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord." This is an assertion of God's sovereign right and power (also his intention) to judge the whole earth (not land, as in the King James Version)."[5]Eakin pointed out... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:2

Zephaniah 1:2. I will utterly consume— I am about to take away. Houbigant, to put to death and destroy. This first chapter contains the general threatening against all the people whom the Lord had appointed to the slaughter; against Judah, and against those who leap on the threshold; that is, the Philistines. See 1 Samuel 5:5. In the second chapter he inveighs against Moab, against Ammon, against Cush, against the Phoenicians and Assyrians; and there he foretels the fall of Nineveh, which... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:2

2. utterly consume—from a root to "sweep away," or "scrape off utterly." See :-, Margin, and here. from off the land—of Judah. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:2

Yahweh revealed that He would completely remove everything from the face of the earth (cf. 2 Peter 3:10-12). This is one of the most explicit announcements of the total devastation of planet Earth in the Old Testament (cf. Isaiah 24:1-6; Isaiah 24:19-23). While it may involve some hyperbole, it seems clearly to foretell a worldwide judgment."Its imminent reference, some think, was to the fact that the barbaric Scythians, who had left their homeland north of the Black Sea, were sweeping over... read more