Zephaniah 2:3

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:1-3

8THE PROPHET AND THE REFORMERSZephaniah 1:1-18 - Zephaniah 2:3TOWARDS the year 625, when King Josiah had passed out of his minority, and was making his first efforts at religious reform, prophecy, long slumbering, woke again in Israel. Like the king himself, its first heralds were men in their early youth. In 627 Jeremiah calls himself but a boy, and Zephaniah can hardly have been out of his teens. For the sudden outbreak of these young lives there must have been a large reservoir of patience... 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 2:3

2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which {b} have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.(b) That is, who have lived uprightly and godly according as he prescribes by his word. 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 2:1-3

"Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (2) Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. (3) Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger." The Prophet takes occasion, from the awful and impending judgments denounced in... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:3

Just. Hebrew, "justice." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "righteousness, and answer the same." (Haydock) --- Scarcely the innocent will escape. (Menochius) --- The prophet does not specify the crimes of the Philistines, as Ezechiel (xxv. 15.) does. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 2:1-3

1-3 The prophet calls to national repentance, as the only way to prevent national ruin. A nation not desiring, that has not desires toward God, is not desirous of his favour and grace, has no mind to repent and reform. Or, not desirable, not having any thing to recommend them to God; to whom God might justly say, Depart from me; but he says, Gather together to me that you may seek my face. We know what God's decree will bring against impenitent sinners, therefore it highly concerns all to... 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 2:1-3

THE DAY OF JUDGMENTZephaniah 1:1 to Zephaniah 2:3[The Universality of the Judgment (Zephaniah 1:2-3): it will destroy all the Idolaters in Judah and Jerusalem (Zephaniah 1:4-7): it will fall upon Sinners of every Rank (Zephaniah 1:8-13): it will burst irresistibly upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth (Zephaniah 1:14-18): a Call to Conversion (Zephaniah 2:1-3).—C. E.]1 The word of Jehovah, which was communicated to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of... read more

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