Zephaniah 1:16-18 NIV

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

ZEPHANIAH DIVINE DEVASTATION AND PROMISE Little is known of the personal history of Zephaniah beyond the two facts in the first verse of his prophecy, the first bearing on his ancestry and the second on the period of his ministry. About fifty years have elapsed since Nahum, and Hezekiah has been succeeded by three of his descendants (see 2 Kings 20-21). Manasseh and Amon were idolatrous and wicked, but Josiah now upon the throne, is righteous and God-fearing. The story of his reign is in the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Zephaniah 1:1-18

The Candle of the Lord Zephaniah 1-3 "The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah" ( Zep 1:1 ). Observe that the prophets never professed to tell what word of the Lord came to anybody else. That is the vital point; that is the point which we have all forgotten. Read the introductions which the men themselves wrote: where do they find their texts? In the mouth of the Lord. When does any prophet arise to say, "I am going to preach to you to-day from the words of some other prophet?"... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

O "The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. (15) That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (16) A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. (17) And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Zephaniah 1:18

REFLECTIONS THINK Reader! from all that you and I have seen and gone through, in reading of the sins and sorrows of poor fallen nature, what an awful state was that nature in by the fall, and what a blessed deliverance from the guilt, dominion, and endless punishment of it, by the gracious undertaking and accomplishment of salvation, by the Lord Jesus Christ! Oh! thou Great, thou Glorious, and Almighty Benefactor of thy people. It was thine, O Lord, to bring us out from a ruin which nothing... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

Trumpet, when Nachao came and deposed Joachas. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:17

Blind. Not knowing what course to take, Deuteronomy xxviii. 29., and Isaias lix. 10. (Calmet) --- Such will be the horror preceding judgment. (Haydock) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:18

Gold. Ezechiel vii. 19. Thus the Medes despised riches, Isaias xiii. 17. (Calmet) --- Jealousy. God regarded the synagogue as his spouse. (Menochius) --- "If he loved not the soul of man, he would not be jealous of it." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:14-18

14-18 This warning of approaching destruction, is enough to make the sinners in Zion tremble; it refers to the great day of the Lord, the day in which he will show himself by taking vengeance on them. This day of the Lord is very near; it is a day of God's wrath, wrath to the utmost. It will be a day of trouble and distress to sinners. Let them not be laid asleep by the patience of God. What is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? And what shall a man give in... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Zephaniah 1:11-18

The Extent of the Judgment v. 11. Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, meaning the mortar, a small section of Jerusalem, so called because it presented a depression or hollow, for all the merchant people are cut down, entirely destroyed; all they that bear silver, the traders laden with silver, who occupied that part of the lower city, are cut off. v. 12. And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with candles, investigating even the dark and hidden corners, so that not... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Zephaniah 1:1-18

THE DAY OF JUDGMENTZephaniah 1:1 to Zephaniah 2:3[The Universality of the Judgment (Zephaniah 1:2-3): it will destroy all the Idolaters in Judah and Jerusalem (Zephaniah 1:4-7): it will fall upon Sinners of every Rank (Zephaniah 1:8-13): it will burst irresistibly upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth (Zephaniah 1:14-18): a Call to Conversion (Zephaniah 2:1-3).—C. E.]1 The word of Jehovah, which was communicated to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of... read more

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Zephaniah 1:18

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:17

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:18

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:14-18

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Zephaniah 1:11-18

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Zephaniah 1:1-18

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