Zephaniah 1:16 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching destruction by the Chaldeans. That is enough to make the sinners in Zion tremble?that it is the day of the Lord, the day in which he will manifest himself by taking vengeance on them. It is the great day of the Lord, a specimen of the day of judgment, a kind of doom?s-day, as the last destruction... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities ,.... The trumpet of the enemy, sounding the alarm of war against the fenced cities of Judea, which were taken before Jerusalem; calling and gathering the soldiers together, and animating them to the assault of them; and blowing them in a way of triumph; and as expressive of victory, having got possession of them: and against the high towers ; or "corners" F24 פנות "pinnas", Montanus, Castalio; "angulos", Junius &... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD , AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

We learn from ver. 1 that Zephaniah received from the Lord his message to Judah in the days of Josiah, the last of the godly and reforming kings, who, after the gross corruption of the preceding reigns of Manasseh and Amon, restored to a large extent the purity of the worship of God, and was the means of bringing about a certain kind and degree of repentance and amendment in the people. Probably, however, the major part of Zephaniah's prophecy belongs to the early part of Josiah's reign,... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

A day of the trumpet and alarm. "Alarm" means "the sound of alarm." Among the Jews trumpets were used to announce the festivals ( Numbers 29:1 ), and to give the signal for battle or of the approach of an enemy ( Jeremiah 4:5 , Jeremiah 4:19 ; Ezekiel 33:4 ). Here it is the signal of destruction ( Amos 2:2 ). The fenced cities. The strongest fortresses shall feel the irresistible attack ( Micah 5:11 ). The high towers. These are the turrets built at the angles of the walls... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:16

A day of the trumpet and alarm - o that is, of the loud blast of the trumpet, which sounds alarm and causes it. The word is especially the shrill loud noise of the trumpet (for sacred purposes in Israel itself, as ruling all the movements of the tabernacle and accompanying their feasts); then also of the “battle cry.” They had not listened to the voice of the trumpet, as it called them to holy service; now they shall hear “the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God” 1 Thessalonians... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:14-16

Zephaniah 1:14-16. The great day of the Lord is near The time of God’s executing his terrible judgments is nigh at hand. Even the voice, &c. The word even is not in the Hebrew. This latter part of the sentence may, it seems, be better rendered thus: The voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, and it vehemently resoundeth there. Or, Then the mighty man crieth out. The general sense is, that great noise, or distraction, should attend the taking of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. That... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

1:1-3:8 PUNISHMENT OF SINNERSSins of Jerusalem (1:1-18)The prophet opens with a general statement about judgment that probably comes as no surprise to the people of Jerusalem. He announces that God will destroy sin from the earth (1:1-3). What surprises the hearers is Zephaniah’s assertion that God will destroy them, for they too are sinners (4a). Anti-God practices established by Manasseh still exist, such as the worship of Baal, the worship of the stars and the worship of Milcom (Molech).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zephaniah 1:16

the trumpet and alarm = an alarming trumpet. Figure of speech Hendiadys = a trumpet, yea, a trumpet [call] "to arms"! Compare Zephaniah 2:2 . towers. Hebrew corners. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the towers usually fixed there. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:14-16

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zephaniah 1:16

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