Zephaniah 2:10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zephaniah 2:8-11

The Moabites and Ammonites were both of the posterity of Lot; their countries joined, and, both adjoining to Israel, they are here put together in the prophecy against them. I. They are both charged with the same crime, and that was reproaching and reviling the people of God and triumphing in their calamities (Zeph. 2:8): They have reproached my people; while God's people kept close to their duty it is probable that they reproached them for the singularities of their religion; and now that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:10

This shall they have for their pride ,.... This calamity shall come upon their land, the land of the Moabites and Ammonites, for their pride, which often goes before a fall; and has frequently been the cause of the ruin of kingdoms and states, and of particular persons; and indeed seems to have been the first sin of the apostate angels, and of fallen man. Of the pride of Moab see Isaiah 16:6 , because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 2:10

Because they have reproached - See on Zephaniah 2:8 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 2:8-10

3. The punishment shall fall next upon the Moabites and Ammonites, representing the east. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 2:10

This shall they have. All these calamities mentioned above shall fall on the Ammonites and Moabites in punishment of their pride and spite and insolence (see note on Zephaniah 2:8 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:10

This shall they have for their pride - Literally, “This to them instead of their pride.” Contempt and shame shall be the residue of the proud man; the exaltation shall be gone, and all which they shall gain to themselves shall be shame. Moab and Ammon are the types of heretics . As they were akin to the people of God, but hating it; akin to Abraham through a lawless birth, but ever molesting the children of Abraham, so heretics profess to believe in Christ, to be children of Christ, and yet... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 2:8-11

Zephaniah 2:8-11. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of Ammon These countries were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem: see the places referred to in the margin, where, as well as here, they are threatened with destruction, for their insulting over the Jews in their calamities. And magnified themselves against their border Have invaded their territories: see Jeremiah 49:1. Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and Ammon as Gomorrah ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 2:1-15

The certainty of judgment (2:1-15)In spite of the certainty of judgment, there is still hope for those who will turn to God in humility and faith. The only ones to escape the divine wrath will be those who renounce their former wrongdoing and determine to live in obedience to God (2:1-3).To impress upon the Jerusalemites that no sinners will escape God’s wrath, Zechariah gives them examples of coming judgment on neighbouring nations. The first judgment concerns regions to the west of Judah. The... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zephaniah 2:10

"This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts."For centuries, Moab and Ammon had spoken against God's people; and Moab in particular, in the persons of Balak and Balaam, had been the architect of the wanton seduction of Israel at Baal-Peor, which event issued finally in the complete apostasy of Israel. Moab and Ammon, while real enough in themselves, are in this prophecy a type of worldly opposition to the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 2:10

10. (Compare :-). their pride—in antithesis to the meek ( :-). read more