Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:14-18
3. The imminence and horrors of Judah’s judgment 1:14-18Zephaniah’s third picture of the day of the LORD is that of a great battle. read more
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Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:15-16
The prophet wanted to emphasize the danger his complacent hearers faced even more strongly. He described the effects of the day of the Lord on people by using five synonymous word pairs. If would be a day marked by emotional distress and anguish as well as physical destruction and devastation. The prophet described the terror as darkness and gloom, and clouds and blackness. Trumpet blast and battle cry picture the tumult of that day. The fortified cities of Judah would face invasion, and the... 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 1:14
(14) Even the voice of the day.—Better, Hark to the day! What is heard is the cry of the baffled warrior, unable either to fight or flee. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:14-18
(14-18) The judgment, in reference to its destructive character. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:15
(15) Clouds and thick darkness.—As when Jehovah revealed Himself on Mount Sinai: see Deuteronomy 4:11. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:16
(16) Alarm.—Better, war cry. 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
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18
Analysis and Annotations CHAPTER 1 The Day of the Lord, the Day of Judgment 1. The judgment of all the world (Zephaniah 1:1-3 ) 2. The judgment will destroy the evildoers in Judah (Zephaniah 1:4-13 ) 3. The day of the Lord (Zephaniah 1:14-18 ) Zephaniah 1:1-3 . The first verse is the superscription, and tells us, as pointed out in the introduction, of the connection of Zephaniah and the date of his prophecy. Then comes the announcement of the judgment. It is to consume all things from... read more
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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:14
Zephaniah reported that this great day of the Lord was near, very near, and coming very quickly. His hearers needed to realize that it would be a day in which Yahweh would act (cf. Zephaniah 1:12). When it came, warriors would cry out bitterly because that day would involve fierce fighting. The first deportation of Judeans to Babylon came in 605 B.C. not many years from whenever Zephaniah must have first announced this message. read more