스바냐 1:7-14 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:10

The second class which shall be smitten, viz. the traders and usurers, the enemy being represented as breaking in upon the localities where these persons resided. The fish gate. This is generally supposed to have been in the north wall of the city towards its eastern extremity, and to have been so called because through it were brought the fish from the Jordan and the Sea of Galilee, and there was a fish market in its immediate neighbourhood (see Nehemiah 3:3 ; Nehemiah 12:39 ; 2... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:11

Maktesh; the Mortar; Septuagint, τὴν κατακεκομμένην , "her that is broken down." The word is found in 15:19 of a hollow place in a rock, and it is here used in the sense of "valley," and probably refers to the Tyropoeum, or part of it, the depression that ran down the city, having Aera and Zion on its west side, and Moriah and Ophel on its east, and extended south as far as the pool of Siloam. It does not seem a very appropriate appellation for a lengthy valley like the Tyropceum,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:12

The third class which shall be smitten, viz. the profligate and riotous. I will search Jerusalem with candles ( lights ) . No evil doer shall escape. The enemy whom God summons to execute his wrath shall leave no corner unsearched where the debauchees hide themselves (comp. Luke 15:8 ). Jerome and commentators after him refer to Josephus's account of the last siege of Jerusalem for a parallel to these predicted proceedings of the Chaldeans. Here we read how princes and priests and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:13

Their goods; literally, their strength; their wealth in which they trusted shall become the prey of the enemy, and thus they shall learn that God ruleth in the affairs of men. They shall also build houses, etc. They shall prove in their own case the reality of the punishment threatened in the Law ( Leviticus 26:32 , etc.; Deuteronomy 28:30 , Deuteronomy 28:39 ; comp. Amos 5:11 ; Micah 6:15 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14

Having signified the victims of the judgment, Zephaniah recurs to what he had said in ver. 7, and enforces upon his hearers its near approach. The great day of the Lord ( Joel 2:1 , Joel 2:11 ). Even the voice of the day of the Lord. The day is so close at hand, that the sound of its coming can be heard. Some translate, "Hark! the day of Jehovah." The mighty man shall cry ( crieth ) there bitterly . There, on the battlefield, the hero is panic-stricken, and cries out for fear.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

§ 5. To arouse the self-confident sinners, the prophet here enlarges upon the near approach and terrible nature of this coming judgment. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:7

Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God - (Literally, “Hush,” in awe “from the face of God.”) In the presence of God, even the righteous say from their inmost heart, “I am vile, what shall I answer Thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth” Job 40:4. “Now mine eye seeth Thee, wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes” Job 42:5-6. “Enter not into judgment with Thy servant, O Lord, for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified” Psalms 143:2. How much more must the “man... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:8

I will punish - (Literally, visit upon). God seems oftentimes to be away from His own world. People plot, design, say, in word or in deed, “who is Lord over us?” God is, as it were, a stranger in it, or as a man, who hath “taken a journey into afar country.” God uses our own language to us. “I will visit,” inspecting (so to say), examining, sifting, reviewing, and when man’s sins require it, allowing the weight of His displeasure to fall upon them.The princes - The prophet again, in vivid... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish all those that leap on the threshold - Neither language nor history nor context allow this to be understood of the idolatrous custom of Ashdod, not to tread on the threshold of the temple of Dagon. It had indeed been a strange infatuation of idolatry, that God’s people should adopt an act of superstitious reverence for an idol in the very instance in which its nothingness and the power of the true God had been shown. Nothing is indeed too brutish for one who chooses an idol for... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:10

A cry from the fish-gate - “The fish-gate” was probably in the north of the wall of “the second city.” For in Nehemiah’s rebuilding, the restoration began at the sheep-gate Nehemiah 3:1 (so called doubtless, because the sheep for the sacrifices were brought in by it), which, as being near the temple, was repaired by the priests; then it ascended northward, by two towers, the towers of Meah and Hananeel; then two companies repaired some undescribed part of the wall Nehemiah 3:2, and then another... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:10

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:10

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