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Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:11

11. Maktesh—rather, "the mortar," a name applied to the valley of Siloam from its hollow shape [JEROME]. The valley between Zion and Mount Olivet, at the eastern extremity of Mount Moriah, where the merchants dwelt. :-, "The Canaanite," namely, merchant [Chaldee Version]. The Tyropoeligon (that is, cheese-makers') valley below Mount Akra [ROSENMULLER]. Better Jerusalem itself, so called as lying in the midst of hills (Isaiah 22:1; Jeremiah 21:13) and as doomed to be the scene of its people... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:12

12. search . . . with candles—or lamps; so as to leave no dark corner in it wherein sin can escape the punishment, of which the Chaldeans are My instruments (compare Zephaniah 1:13; Luke 15:8). settled on their lees—"hardened" or crusted; image from the crust formed at the bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Luke 15:8- :). The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease ("lees") on the ungodly is hardening: they become stupidly secure (compare Psalms 55:19; Amos 6:1). Lord will not do good . . .... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:7-13

2. The course of Judah’s judgment 1:7-13Zephaniah’s second picture of the day of the LORD is that of a great sacrifice. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:9

The Lord would also punish those who leaped over the thresholds of their neighbors in their zeal to plunder them and who filled the temple with gifts taken through violence and deceit. Another view of leaping over the threshold is that this expression describes a superstition that anyone who walked on a building’s threshold would have bad luck (cf. 1 Samuel 5:5). In this case the temple in view might be the temple of Baal. "Their lord" is literally "Their Baal" (cf. Zephaniah 1:4). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:10

When the Lord brought judgment on Judah, there would be crying out from various parts of Jerusalem representing the total destruction of the city. The Fish Gate was the gate through which the fishermen normally entered the city with their catches. It was a gate that pierced Jerusalem’s north wall close to the fish market (cf. 2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 12:39). It was probably through this gate that Nebuchadnezzar entered Jerusalem since he invaded it from the north. The Second... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:11

Zephaniah called the inhabitants of the Mortar, the market or business district of Jerusalem, to wail because judgment was coming. This section of Jerusalem may have received the name "mortar" (bowl) because it lay in the somewhat geographically depressed Tyropoeon Valley. The Canaanites who did business there would fall silent because business would cease. Those who weighed silver as they conducted commercial transactions would also perish from the city. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:12

The Lord would search among the residents of Jerusalem carefully then, as one searches by using a lamp (cf. Luke 15:8). He would punish the people whose love for Him had stagnated, like wine left undisturbed too long (cf. Revelation 3:15-16), and who concluded indifferently that He was complacent and would not act (cf. Isaiah 32:9; Ezekiel 30:9; Amos 6:1). read more

John Dummelow

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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:7-13

(7-13) The judgment, in reference to its objects. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:9

(9) Their masters’ houses.—Better, their lord’s house, meaning the temple of their idol-deity. Probably the true interpretation of this obscure verse is that the idolaters had adopted a usage prevalent in the Philistine temples of Dagon—that of leaping over the threshold on entering the idol’s temple. (See 1 Samuel 5:5.) When they entered it they filled it with “violence and deceit” by bringing thither offerings acquired by fraud and oppression. Another interpretation makes the verse relate... read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:11

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:7-13

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:12

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:7-13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:9

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