Zephaniah 1:9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zephaniah 1:9

those that leap, &c. No reference to idolatrous practice, as in 1 Kings 18:26 ; but to the servants of rulers sent to enter the houses of others and steal Figure of speech Periphrasis ( App-6 ), for robbers. on = over. violence and deceit. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , for the booty procured. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

"And in that day will I punish all that leap over the threshold, that fill their master's house with violence and deceit."Some have tried to make "leap over the threshold" here a reference to some pagan custom; but we believe that Barnes was correct in viewing the second clause as an explanation of the first."Neither language, nor history, nor context allow this to be understood of the idolatrous customs of Ashdod. The same persons who "leap over the threshold" are those who "fill their... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

Zephaniah 1:9. Those that leap on the threshold— Over the threshold. Houbigant. Calmet observes, that this alludes to the custom of the Philistines, when they enter the temple of Dagon; but the author of the Observations is of a different opinion. That notion can have nothing to recommend it, says he, I think, but its being supposed by so old a writer as the Chaldee paraphrast: he is of opinion, that it alludes to the custom of riding into the houses, spoken of in the note on Pro 17:19 and he... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:9

9. those that leap on the threshold—the servants of the princes, who, after having gotten prey (like hounds) for their masters, leap exultingly on their masters' thresholds; or, on the thresholds of the houses which they break into [CALVIN]. JEROME explains it of those who walk up the steps into the sanctuary with haughtiness. ROSENMULLER translates, "Leap over the threshold"; namely, in imitation of the Philistine custom of not treading on the threshold, which arose from the head and hands of... 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

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

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

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