스바냐 2:11-15 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 2:14

Flocks ; herds. The prophet describes graphically the desolation mentioned in the preceding verse. The "herds" are not sheep and cattle, as in parallel cases ( Isaiah 17:2 ; Isaiah 27:10 ; Isaiah 32:14 ), but all the beasts of the nations — all the wild beasts that infest the country. Septuagint, πάντα τὰ θηρία τῆς γῆς . The Hebrew will hardly hear Keil's rendering, "all kinds of beasts in crowds." (Compare similar predictions, Isaiah 13:21 ; Isaiah 34:11 , Isaiah... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 2:15

This is the rejoicing city. Such is the fate of this once exulting city, that dwelt carelessly, secure, with no fear of danger at hand ( Isaiah 47:8 , on which this passage is founded). I am, and there is none beside me. Thus, in effect, Nineveh claimed for himself the attributes of Almighty God. She stands alone, mistress of nations, a type of the powers of this world, which deify themselves and defy the Lord. Septuagint, οὐκ ἔστι μετ ἐμὲ ἔτι , "There is no more any after... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be terrible unto - (upon) them that is, upon Moab and Ammon, and yet not in themselves only, but as instances of His just judgment. Whence it follows, “For He will famish all the gods of the earth” (Rup.). Miserable indeed, to whom the Lord is terrible! Whence is this? Is not God by Nature sweet and pleasurable and serene, and an Object of longing? For the Angels ever desire to look into Him, and, in a wonderful and unspeakable way, ever look and ever long to look. For miserable... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:12

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword - Literally, “Ye Ethiopians also, the slain of My sword are they.” Having summoned them to His throne, God speaks of them, not to them anymore; perhaps in compassion, as elsewhere in indignation . The Ethiopians were not in any direct antagonism to God and His people, but allied only to their old oppressor, Egypt. They may have been in Pharaoh Necho’s army, in resisting which, as a subject of Assyria, Josiah was slain: they are mentioned... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:13

Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction, “I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah” Zephaniah 1:4; he sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; “He will stretch out, or, Stretch He forth, “His Hand against the north and destroy Asshur, and make Nineveh a desolation.” Judah had, in Zephaniah’s time, nothing to fear from Assyria. Isaiah Isaiah 39:6 and Micah Micah 4:10 had already foretold, that the captivity would be to Babylon. Yet of Assyria alone the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:14

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her - No desolation is like that of decayed luxury. It preaches the nothingness of man, the fruitlessness of his toils, the fleetingness of his hopes and enjoyments, and their baffling when at their height. Grass in a court or on a once beaten road, much more, in a town, speaks of the passing away of what has been, that man was accustomed to be there, and is not, or is there less than he was. It leaves the feeling of void and forsakenness. But in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:15

This utter desolation is “the rejoicing city” (so unlike is it, that there is need to point out that it is the same); this is she, who was full of joy, exulting exceedingly, but in herself, not in God; “that dwelt carelessly,” literally, “securely,” and so carelessly; saying “Peace and safety” 1 Thessalonians 5:3, as though no evil would come upon her, and so perishing more certainly and miserably (see Judges 18:27) “That said in her heart,” this was her inmost feeling, the moving cause of all... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:8-11

Zephaniah 2:8-11. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of Ammon These countries were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem: see the places referred to in the margin, where, as well as here, they are threatened with destruction, for their insulting over the Jews in their calamities. And magnified themselves against their border Have invaded their territories: see Jeremiah 49:1. Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and Ammon as Gomorrah ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:12

Zephaniah 2:12. Ye Ethiopians also shall be slain Here a denunciation of divine wrath is uttered against the Ethiopians, as, Zephaniah 2:8, against the Moabites and Ammonites. It is said that they should be slain by God’s sword; because Nebuchadnezzar, who was to subdue them, was raised up by the divine providence, in order to execute its purposes; and to cut off those whose wickedness called for the infliction of divine vengeance. This denunciation against the Ethiopians was fulfilled by... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:13-14

Zephaniah 2:13-14. And he will stretch out his hand against the north Nor will the southern nations only be punished, but judgments will be executed by the divine justice on the nations lying toward the north; and will make Nineveh a desolation What is here foretold was fulfilled before the predictions recorded in the foregoing verses. Dr. Prideaux observes, that “Chyniladanus being king of the Assyrian and Babylonian empire, Nabopolassar, his general, took the latter from him, in the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 2:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 2:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:8-11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:13-14

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