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F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

“The Great Day of the Lord” Zephaniah 1:1-18 Zephaniah means hidden of the Lord. He lived in Josiah’s reign, and cooperated with that king in his efforts to put down idolatry. His prophecy deals with the sins that were rife in Judah and the fearful retribution that would be inflicted through the Chaldeans. Approaching destruction , Zephaniah 1:2-6 . The Chemarim, r.v., were idolatrous priests dressed in black garments. Malcam is Milcom or Moloch. Notice the successive classes of those who... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

The first movement of the prophecy is the prophet's declaration of the coming judgment of Jehovah. This he announced in general terms, then described more particularly its procedure and character. This description opened with a comprehensive announcement, "I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah." Zephaniah then showed that to be a description of the creation in so far as it had become evil: man and the sphere of his dominion, the stumbling-blocks,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:7-18

The Day of YHWH Against Judah and Jerusalem (Zephaniah 1:7-18 ). Zephaniah 1:7 ‘Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord YHWH. For the day of YHWH is at hand. For YHWH has prepared a sacrifice. He has sanctified his guests.’ All are to be silent in awe in the presence of the Lord YHWH (compare Habakkuk 2:20; Lamentations 3:26; Zechariah 2:13; Revelation 8:1). The title the Lord YHWH is a favourite one of Ezekiel. It stresses His overlordship. ‘For the day of YHWH is at hand.’ This phrase... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:2-18

Zephaniah 1:2-Job : . The Doom of Judah and Jerusalem. Zephaniah 1:2-Joshua : . Riding as it were on the crest of a tidal wave of destruction, which sweeps off man and beast from the face of the ground, Yahweh stretches His hand against Judah and Jerusalem, the centre of the world’ s offence, to cut off the priests and worshippers of Baal, together with all such as prostrate themselves before the host of heaven, mingle the worship of Yahweh with that of Molech, or otherwise prove traitor to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:14

The great day; not the day of general judgment, but the day in which the great God will bring his great armies against Judah and Jerusalem, and do great things by those armies. Of the Lord; appointed, foretold, and now actually brought on them by the Lord. It is near; very near; it is doubled to show the nearness of it, and to assure us it is so. And hasteth greatly; your enemies’ eagerness for the prey, your sins and security, and the Lord’s justly provoked anger, hasten this day. The voice;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:15

That day, great day, Zephaniah 1:14, is a day of wrath, from the Chaldeans; and from the Lord, actively, upon the Jews, passively. A day of trouble and distress: here the prophet heapeth up words of much the same sense, to express the grievousness of the troubles of those times which shall suddenly come upon them; most distressing trouble, none knowing how to bear it, or where to hide from it. Of wasteness and desolation; most desolate wasteness in city, villages, and fields; every where the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:16

The trumpet; God’s trumpet calling the Chaldeans, the Chaldeans’ trumpet also gathering together their troops. Alarm, threatening and affrighting, against the fenced cities of Judah. The high towers; stately palaces and strong munitions, fortified with high towers, built at the angles of walls, and therefore the Hebrew calls them high corners; it may mean also the great men, which, as corners well built are the strength and beauty of a wall, so they of a state, Judges 20:2; Zechariah 10:4. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Zephaniah 1:10-18

CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 1:10.] Siege of Jerusalem. Gate] which stood near fish-market (2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:3). Second] A part of the city given (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22). Hills] within the walls, Zion and Moriah. Crashing] Breaking to pieces of what now exists, not merely fall of buildings, as Isaiah 15:6. A cry at the threat of utter destruction [Keil]. Zephaniah 1:11. Maktesh] A rock in form of a mortar, where they hulled rice and corn. “The name probably chosen to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

ZephaniahShall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Zephaniah. The opening verse tells us that,This is the word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, who was the son of Gedaliah, who was the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah ( Zephaniah 1:1 ).Now, of the minor prophets we really have very little of their background. For some reason we have more of Zephaniah's background than any of them, as he gives his lineage. He takes his lineage actually back to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Zephaniah 1:1 . The Word of the Lord came to Zephaniah. The glorious person of Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God; so indeed is the oft-repeated gloss of the Chaldaic in all the book of Chronicles, when a prophet was sent to warn and reprove the land of Israel. The name given to him by his parents, “the secret of the Lord,” might seem to have been an augur of his divine call. Zephaniah 1:2-3 . I will utterly consume man beasts birds and fishes. It was known to the ancients that birds... read more

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:7-18

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:2-18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zephaniah 1:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Zephaniah 1:10-18

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:1-18

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