Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:1-6
(1-6) Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem is impending on account of a religious apostacy of manifold forms and degrees. The wide range of this judgment. read more
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Charles John Ellicott
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:4
(4) The remnant of Baal.—i.e., Baal worship shall he completely and utterly abolished. Not even a remnant of it shall be left. The term “remnant” need not imply, as Kleinert argues, that a large part of the Baal-worship had been already overthrown, by Josiah’s reformation.The Chemarims.—In 2 Kings 23:5, this is the designation of the “idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places.” The term is used again in Hosea 10:5. Even the very name of these... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:5
(5) The worship “on the housetops” is mentioned elsewhere as the cult of a certain class of apostates (see Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29) who ascended roots and other high places to adore the hosts of heaven. We find it mentioned as part of Josiah’s reformatory procedure that he removed “the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz” (2 Kings 23:12). The last half of the verse should be rendered, And the worshippers who swear to Jehovah, and who swear (also) by Malcham—i.e.,... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18
THE 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 1:1-18
Analysis and Annotations CHAPTER 1 The Day of the Lord, the Day of Judgment 1. The judgment of all the world (Zephaniah 1:1-3 ) 2. The judgment will destroy the evildoers in Judah (Zephaniah 1:4-13 ) 3. The day of the Lord (Zephaniah 1:14-18 ) Zephaniah 1:1-3 . The first verse is the superscription, and tells us, as pointed out in the introduction, of the connection of Zephaniah and the date of his prophecy. Then comes the announcement of the judgment. It is to consume all things from... read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Zephaniah 1:4
1:4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the {b} Chemarims with the priests;(b) Who were an order of superstitious priests appointed to minister in the service of Baal, and were as his special chaplains; read 2 Kings 23:5, Hosea 10:5 . read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Zephaniah 1:5
1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship [and] that swear by the LORD, and that swear by {c} Malcham;(c) He alludes to their idol Molech, which was forbidden; read Leviticus 20:2 , yet they called him their king, and made him as a god: therefore he here notes those that will both say they worship God, and yet will swear by idols and serve them: which faltering is here condemned, as in Ezekiel 20:39, 1 Kings 18:21, 2 Kings 17:33 . read more
James Gray
James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18
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 1:1-18
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
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John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18
The Day of Jehovah a Day of Judgment for guilty JudahThe prophecy opens with the declaration of universal destruction for all living things. In his way the prophet impresses upon his hearers the completeness and appalling nature of the impending judgment. In the succeeding vv. he defines in detail the character of the punishment and the guilty classes in Judah upon which it will especially fall. It is in keeping with the genius of the Semitic mind thus to pass from the general to the specific.... read more