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Verse 6. _THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK_] Who have forsaken the true God,
and become idolaters.
_NOR INQUIRED FOR HIM_] Have not desired to know his will....
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AND THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK FROM - (Literally, have turned
themselves back from following after) the Lord From this half-service,
the prophet goes on to the avowed neglect of God, by such as wholly...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
CHAPTER 1
The Day of the Lord, the Day of Judgment
_ 1. The judgment of all the world (Zephaniah 1:1) _
2. The judgment will destroy the evildoers in Judah (Zephaniah 1:4)...
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THE DOOM OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM.
Zephaniah 1:2. 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 aga...
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FROM. from after.
SOUGHT... ENQUIRED. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29, where
the two Hebrew verbs are in the same order, and are rendered "seek...
seek"). App-92.
LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._...
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In this verse also one class of persons is described in two ways:
those who have turned away from Jehovah and who do not seek Him. Comp.
the prophet's exhortation ch. Zephaniah 2:2, "seek ye the Lord,...
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_GOD'S WRATH COMING UPON JUDAH -- ZEPHANIAH 1:4-6:_ God promised that
He would reach out to punish Judah and Jerusalem. The punishment would
be so great that nothing would remain. Both Baal and the pa...
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JUDGEMENT OF JUDAH. Zephaniah 1:4 to Zephaniah 2:3)
RV. And I will stretch our my hand upon Judah, and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from
this place, an...
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And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not
sought the LORD, nor inquired And them that are turned back from the
LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired f...
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THE DAY OF JEHOVAH A DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR GUILTY JUDAH
The prophecy opens with the declaration of universal destruction for
all living things. IN his way the prophet impresses upon his hearers
the comp...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
Assyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For many
years, it ruled most of the world. Nahum,...
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(1-6) Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem is impending on account of a
religious apostacy of manifold forms and degrees. The wide range of
this judgment....
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Schmieder observes that the enumeration of Zephaniah 1:4 extends from
gross external to refined internal apostasy. “The Lord will destroy
(1) the idols of Baal; (2) their priests; (3) those who openly...
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וְ אֶת ־הַ נְּסֹוגִ֖ים מֵ אַחֲרֵ֣י
יְהוָ֑ה
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THE PROPHET AND THE REFORMERS
Zephaniah 1:1 - Zephaniah 2:3
TOWARDS the year 625, when King Josiah had passed out of his minority,
and was making his first efforts at religious reform, prophecy, long...
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“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 wit...
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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.
Thi...
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O "I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the
LORD. (3) I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of
the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks wit...
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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 seems here to include, as it were, in one bundle, the
proud despisers of God, as well as those idolaters of whom he had
spoken. It may yet be, that he describes the same persons in differe...
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The prophet begins by declaring that the land should be reduced to
complete desolation; afterwards, that Judah, Jerusalem, their false
gods, and their priests, should be smitten by the hand of Jehovah...
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AND THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK FROM THE LORD,.... Who once were
worshippers of him, but now become apostates, and had turned their
backs on him and his worship. Some think this describes those who
rene...
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And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not
sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
Ver. 6. _And them that are turned back from the Lord_] Not gross
idolaters, but yet treac...
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_I will also stretch out my hand upon Judah_ I will manifest my power
upon Judah, as I have done upon Israel. _And I will cut off the
remnant of Baal_ The altars, or places of worship, dedicated to Ba...
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and them that are turned back from the Lord, drawing back from
Jehovah, AND THOSE THAT HAVE NOT SOUGHT THE LORD NOR ENQUIRED FOR HIM,
both the openly wicked and the irreligious being included in the l...
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THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
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1-6 Ruin is coming, utter ruin; destruction from the Almighty. The
servants of God all proclaim, There is no peace for the wicked. The
expressions are figurative, speaking every where desolation; the...
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THEM THAT ARE TURNED BACK; apostates, who have forsaken the Lord and
his worship, or that are turned atheists, or that in matter of
religion have taken up not what is purest and truest, but what is
ne...
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Zephaniah 1:6 back H5472 (H8737) from H310 LORD H3068 sought H1245
(H8765) LORD H3068 inquired H1875 ...
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GOD'S PARTICULAR JUDGMENT WILL AT THIS TIME BE APPLIED TO JUDAH AND
JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 1:4).
Zephaniah 1:4
“And I will stretch out my hand on Judah,
And on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
And...
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CONTENTS: Coming judgment on Judah prefiguring the coming day of the
Lord.
CHARACTERS: God, Zephaniah, Josiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who will not improve the presence of God with them
as a Father, may e...
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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, w...
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_The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah._
THE WORD
I. THE DISTINGUISHING CAPACITY OF MAN, AND THE WONDERFUL CONDESCENSION
OF GOD.
1. The distinguishing capacity of man. To receive the word...
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:2 Judgment Coming against Judah. God
first directs his attention against all living beings (vv. Zephaniah
1:2). He then addresses Judah, r
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ZEPHANIAH 1:4.] Judgment, especially upon Judah. STRETCH] Not only
threaten, but exert power to injury. REMNANT] Statues, images
dedicated to Baal, domestic and tutelary god of the P...
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EXPOSITION.
ZEPHANIAH 1:1
Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD, AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR....
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Zephaniah
Shall 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 Gedali...