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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:7

Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lords God - הס has , the same as hush, hist, among us. Remonstrances are now useless. You had time to acquaint yourselves with God; you would not: you cry now in vain; destruction is at the door. The Lord hath prepared a sacrifice - A slaughter of the people. He hath bid his guests - The Babylonians, to whom he has given a commission to destroy you. In all festivals sacrifices, The victims were offered to God, and their blood poured out... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:8

I will punish the princes, and the king's children - After the death of Josiah the kingdom of Judah saw no prosperity, and every reign terminated miserably; until at last King Zedekiah and the king's children were cruelly massacred at Riblah, when Nebuchadnezzar had taken Jerusalem. Strange apparel - I really think this refers more to their embracing idolatrous customs and heathen usages, than to their changing their dress. They acquired new habits, as we would say; customs, that they... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

That leap on the threshold - Or, that leap over the threshold. It is most probable that the Philistines are here meant. After the time that Dagon fell before the ark, and his hands were broken off on the threshold of his temple, his worshippers would no more set a foot upon the threshold, but stepped or leaped over it, when they entered into his temple. The Chaldee understands this of the Philistines, without giving this reason for it. Some understand it of haughtiness and pride: others... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:10

A cry from the fish-gate - This gate, which is mentioned Nehemiah 3:3 , was opposite to Joppa; and perhaps the way in which the news came of the irruption of the Chaldean army, the great crashing from the hills. The second - Or second city, may here mean a part of Jerusalem, mentioned 2 Kings 22:14 ; 2 Chronicles 34:22 . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:11

Maktesh - Calmet says this signifies a mortar, or a rock in form of a mortar, and was the name of a quarter of Jerusalem where they hulled rice, corn, etc., according to St. Jerome. Some think the city of Jerusalem is meant, where the inhabitants should be beat and pounded to death as grain is pounded in a mortar. Newcome translates it, the lower city, and considers it the valley in Jerusalem, which divided the upper from the lower city. They that bear silver - The merchants,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:12

I will search Jerusalem with candles - I will make a universal and thorough search. That are settled on their lees - Those who are careless, satisfied with the goods of this life; who trust in their riches, and are completely irreligious; who, while they acknowledge that there is a God, think, like the Aristotelians, that he is so supremely happy in the contemplation of his own excellences, that he feels it beneath his dignity to concern himself with the affairs of mortals. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:13

Their goods (in which they trust) shall become a booty - To the Chaldeans. They shall have no profit of all their labors. The houses they have built they shall not inhabit; of the wine of the vineyards they have planted, they shall not drink. See Amos 5:11 , where we find the same evils threatened. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near - It commenced with the death of the good king Josiah, who was slain by Pharaoh-necho at Megiddo, and continued to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath - See Isaiah 22:5 ; (note); Jeremiah 30:7 ; (note); Joel 2:2 ; (note), Joel 2:11 ; (note); Amos 5:18 ; (note); Zephaniah 1:18 ; (note), and the notes there. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth verse inclusive there is a most beautiful amplification of the disasters that were coming on Jerusalem; the invasion, incursion, attack, carnage, confusion, horrible din occasioned by the sound of the trumpet, the cries of the people, and the shrieks and groans... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:17

They shall walk like blind men - Be in the most perplexing doubt and uncertainty; and while in this state, have their blood poured out by the sword of their enemies, and their flesh trodden under foot. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:17

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