The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 3:11-13
§ 2. Israel, restored to God's .favour, shall be cleansed and sanctified. read more
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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 3:12
A further characteristic of Messiah's kingdom is here unfolded. No worldly pomp or splendour shall be found in it; its members are not proud, conceited, self-reliant. I will also leave in the midst of thee. I will leave over, as a remnant saved in the judgment (camp. Romans 9:27 ; Micah 2:12 , and the note there). An afflicted and poor people. The two epithets and elsewhere joined together ( Job 34:28 ; Isaiah 26:6 ) to express the feeling of patience under affliction and inability... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 3:13
The remnant of Israel (see note on Zephaniah 3:12 ). Though they claim no worldly eminence, the true Israelites shall be conspicuous for spiritual graces. Shall not do iniquity. Their acts shall be just and holy; their daily conduct such as becomes the children of God's election ( Leviticus 19:2 ; 1 John 3:9 ). Nor speak lies. There shall be no lying prophets there, and all fraud and double-dealing shall be abolished. The proof of their righteous conduct is found in the favour of the... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:9
For then - In the order of God’s mercies. The deliverance from Babylon was the forerunner of that of the Gospel, which was its object. The spread of the Gospel then is spoken of in the connection of God’s Providence and plan, and time is overlooked. Its blessings are spoken of, as “then” given when the earnest was given, and the people, from whom according to the flesh Christ was to be born, were placed anew in the land where He was to be born. Lap.: “The prophet springs, as is his wont, to... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia - (See Isaiah 18:1.) The farthest southern people, with whom the Jews had contact, stand as the type of the whole world beyond. The utmost bound of the known inhabited land should not be the bound of the Gospel. The conversion of Abyssinia is one, but the narrowest fulfillment of the prophecy. The whole new world, though not in the mind of the prophet, was in the mind of Him who spake by the prophet.My suppliants - He names them as what they shall be when they... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:11
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings - Because God, forgiving them, will blot them out and no more remember them. This was first fulfilled in the Gospel. Cyril: “No one can doubt that when Christ came in the flesh, there was an amnesty and remission to all who believed. ‘For we are justified not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His great mercy.’ But we have been released from shame. For ‘He’ hath restored us to freedom of access to God, Who for... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:12
I will also leave - (Over, as a remnant, it is still the same heavy prophecy, that a remnant only ‘shall be saved’) “an afflicted and poor people.” priests, (except that ‘great company who were obedient to the faith’) Acts 6:7, scribes, lawyers, Pharisees, Sadducees were taken away; and there remained “the people of the land” , the “unlearned and ignorant” Acts 4:13, “the weak things of the world and the things despised” 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 who bore the very title of their Master, “the poor... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:13
The remnant of Israel - The same poor people, the “true Israel” of whom God said, “I leave over” (the word is the same) “a poor people,” few, compared with the rest who were blinded; of whom the Lord said, “I know whom I have chosen” John 13:18. These “shall not do iniquity nor speak lies.” Cyril: “This is a spiritual adorning, a most beautiful coronet of glorious virtues. For where meekness and humility are and the desire of righteousness, and the tongue unlearns vain words and sinful speech,... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:9
Zephaniah 3:9. For then Or, afterward, as the particle אז seems to signify here, will I turn, or restore, to the people a pure language I will turn them from their idolatries, and other wickedness, (see Zephaniah 3:13,) to glorify me with one mind and one mouth. The same thing is expressed by speaking the language of Canaan, Isaiah 19:18. This promise seems primarily to respect the Jewish captives in Babylon, and to imply that God would, by the captivity, and other methods of his... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 3:11
In that day. When the Lord rises to seize the prey ( Zephaniah 3:8 ), when the Gentiles are converted, and Judah returns to her obedience. Shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings. God addresses Israel repentant and converted, and assures her that she shall not have to reproach herself any more, or to blush for her iniquities, because God blots them out, or because she sins no more as she has done. And the great help to this improvement is the abolition of the cause and incitement to... read more