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Verse 4. _HER PROPHETS_ ARE _LIGHT_ AND _TREACHEROUS PERSONS_] They
have no _seriousness_, no _deep conviction_ of the awful nature of
their _office_, no _concern_ for the _immortal souls_ of the peo...
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HER PROPHETS ARE LIGHT - , boiling and bubbling, up, like water
boiling over , empty boasters claiming the gift of prophecy, which
they have not; “boldly and rashly pouring out what they willed as
the...
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CHAPTER S 2-3:8
The Call to Repentance in View of the Judgment
_ 1. The call to repentance (Zephaniah 2:1) _
2. The judgment of the Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4)
3. The judgment of Moab and Ammon (Z...
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THE SIN OF JERUSALEM CONTRASTED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF YAHWEH. From
scenes of doom and desolation we are now led back in thought to the
sins that drew down Yahweh's hand in wrath. Despite His const...
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LIGHT. reckless.
TREACHEROUS PERSONS. men (Hebrew. _'enosh,_ App-14.) of treacheries;
placing the emphasis on the treachery.
POLLUTED. profaned. Hebrew. _halal._ Not the same word as in Zephaniah
3:1...
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Zephaniah 3:1-8. Renewed threat against Jerusalem in particular
Ch. 3 returns to Jerusalem. The city is reproached as rebellious,
polluted, and full of oppression (Zephaniah 3:1); disobedient to God...
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_Her prophets_are _light_ Both the idea and the expression find a
parallel in Jeremiah 23:32, "I am against them that prophesy false
dreams, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their
ligh...
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_JERUSALEM REBELLED AGAINST GOD -- ZEPHANIAH 3:1-7:_ The people of
Jerusalem and the entire nation had rebelled against God. Jerusalem
had become a disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city. Those that fa...
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CHAPTER XXII
COMFORT AND CONSOLATION
REAFFIRMATION OF JUDGEMENT. Zephaniah 3:1-8
RV. Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing
city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not co...
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Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have
polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
HER PROPHETS ARE LIGHT - persons in whose life and teaching there is
no...
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THE JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL RULERS OF JERUSALEM, AND ITS ULTIMATE
PURIFICATION AND RESTORATION
Like Amos and Micah, the prophet sternly denounces the crimes of the
ruling classes in Jerusalem, points o...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 3
V1 (It will be) very sad for the city (called Jerusalem). (It has
become a city where people) do not obey (God). It (is) dirt...
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LIGHT AND TREACHEROUS PERSONS. — Better, _braggarts and men of
treachery.
_...
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III.
(1-4) The prophet denounces the corruption and moral obduracy which
characterise all classes in Jerusalem. This denunciation comes in with
startling abruptness. The prophet does not even name th...
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נְבִיאֶ֨יהָ֙ פֹּֽחֲזִ֔ים אַנְשֵׁ֖י
בֹּֽגְדֹ֑ות כֹּהֲנֶ֨יהָ֙ חִלְּלוּ...
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SO AS BY FIRE
Zephaniah 3:1
THE third chapter of the Book of Zephaniah consists of two sections,
of which only the first, Zephaniah 3:1, is a genuine work of the
prophet; while the second, Zephaniah...
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FULLNESS OF SALVATION
Zephaniah 3:1-20
_The sins of Jerusalem_, Zephaniah 3:1-7. Uninfluenced by judgments
upon other nations, Jerusalem pursued her course, morally impure,
oppressive, refusing instr...
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In this chapter the prophet yet more clearly set forth the sin of the
people, and spoke of the hopelessness of the case from the human
standpoint. This gave him his opportunity to announce the victory...
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"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (2)
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not
in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. (3) Her princes w...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
Zephaniah like Habakkuk will be found to have some points of
resemblance with the prophet Jeremiah; and this not merely in the fact
that the Chaldean is the...
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The Prophet again reverts to the pollution and filth of which he has
spoken in the first verse. He shows that he had not without reason
cried against the polluted city; for though the Jews used their...
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SUMMARY TO ZEPHANIAH
Amid this judgment of the nation Jerusalem holds the chief place. In
chapter 3, the Spirit of God, while laying open the iniquity which
occasioned it, turns towards the remnant, a...
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HER PROPHETS [ARE] LIGHT [AND TREACHEROUS PERSONS,.... The false
prophets, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it: these seem to design
the lawyers spoken of in the New Testament, whose business it was t...
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Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have
polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Ver. 4. _Her prophets are light_] Rash, headlong, futilous, debauched...
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_Her princes are roaring lions_ Are like devouring lions, who roar in
the act of seizing their prey. _Her judges are evening wolves_ Like so
many beasts of prey. The princes and judges devour the peop...
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THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...
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Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, boastful and faithless
knaves; HER PRIESTS HAVE POLLUTED THE SANCTUARY, desecrating the
Temple by their neglect of the prescribed sacrifices or by their...
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1-7 The holy God hates sin most in those nearest to him. A sinful
state is, and will be, a woful state. Yet they had the tokens of God's
presence, and all the advantages of knowing his will, with the...
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HER PROPHETS; by education, profession, and unwarranted practice
called so, false prophets; such Zedekiah, and probably Chenaanah, &c.,
were. Are light; unstable and inconstant, ready to comply with h...
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Zephaniah 3:4 prophets H5030 insolent H6348 (H8802) treacherous H900
people H582 priests H3548 polluted H2490 (H8765)
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THE CONDITION OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 3:1).
Zephaniah 3:1
‘Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
To the oppressing city.
She did not obey the voice.
She did not receive correction....
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CONTENTS: Jerusalem's moral state in time of Zephaniah. The coming
judgment of nations and kingdom blessing for restored Israel.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The end of nations that have continued to...
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Zephaniah 3:1. _Woe to the oppressing city,_ to Jerusalem, now
polluted with every crime, and every year growing a carcase for the
eagles.
Zephaniah 3:6. _I have cut off the nations._ The Chaldaic rea...
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_Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! _
A RELIGIOUS CITY TERRIBLY DEGENERATE
I. A professedly religious city terribly degenerated.
1. The princes are mentioned. They are...
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:1 God’s people cannot think that
they will emerge unscathed on the day of the Lord. If they sin (vv.
Zephaniah 3:1) and are shameless (v....
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:4 Religious officials are also
condemned, both PROPHETS and PRIESTS.
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CRITICAL NOTES.] WOE] to Jerusalem; others, Nineveh. FILTHY] From a
word, to straighten oneself; hence, to rebel, to be refractory.
ZEPHANIAH 3:2. VOICE] In law and prophets. CORRECTION] Instruction...
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EXPOSITION.
ZEPHANIAH 3:1
§ 6. The prophet turns to Jerusalem, and warns her that, if God
punishes the heathen, he will not spare the hardened sinners in Judah.
ZEPHANIAH 3:1
WOE TO HER! This is ad...
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Now the Lord speaks against Jerusalem.
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She
obeyed not the voice; she receive not correction; she trusted not in
the LORD; she drew not...
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1 John 4:1; 1 Samuel 2:12; 1 Samuel 2:22; 2 Corinthians 11:13;...
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Her prophet — So called, false prophets. Light — Unstable and
inconstant. Violence to the law — Wresting it by perverse
interpretation....