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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

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Zephaniah 2:4

2:4 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 punishments from them to the Philistines their enemies, and other nations. 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

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Zephaniah 2:4-7

"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 Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. (6) And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. (7) And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:4

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 to expect, as all sin must be punished sooner or later. (Worthington) --- Psammetichus, and his son, Nachao, probably fell upon these cities. (Calmet) --- The former besieged Azotus for twenty-nine years. (Herodotus ii. 157.) --- Afterwards Nabuchodonosor reduced the country, beginning with the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 2:4-15

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 them. It has been the common lot of God's people, in all ages, to be reproached and reviled. God shall be worshipped, not only by all Israel, and the strangers who join them, but by the heathen. Remote nations must be reckoned with for the wrongs done to God's people. The sufferings of the insolent... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Zephaniah 2:1-7

The Exhortation and the Doom of the Philistines v. 1. Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, as for a penitential assembly with earnest self-examination, o nation not desired, literally, "that does not grow pale," which till now has felt no sense of shame, v. 2. before the decree bring forth, when, according to God's plan, the day of judgment upon Judah would suddenly come, before the day pass as the chaff, coming on quickly as when the wind carries the chaff along, before the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Zephaniah 2:4-15

REASONSZephaniah 2:4 to Zephaniah 3:7Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken,And Ashkelon shall become a desolation;Ashdod, they shall drive her out at noon-day,1And Ekron shall be rooted out.5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coast!2The nation of the Cherithim!3The word of Jehovah is against you,O Canaan, land of the Philistines!I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.6 And the sea-coast2 shall become places for pasture,And folds for flocks.7 And the coast2 shall be for the... read more