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Verse 7. _HOLD THY PEACE AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORDS GOD_] הס
_has_, the same as _hush, hist_, among us. Remonstrances are _now_
useless. You had time to acquaint yourselves with God; you would not:...
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HOLD THY PEACE AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD - (Literally,
“Hush,” in awe “from the face of God.”) In the presence of
God, even the righteous say from their inmost heart, “I am vile,
what shall I an...
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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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HOLD THY PEACE, &C. See Amos 6:10; Habakkuk 2:20. Zec 3:13.
THE LORD. Hebrew Adonai. App-4.
GOD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
A SACRIFICE. Septuagint reads "His sacrifice".
BID. separated. Hebrew sanc...
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_Hold thy peace … Lord God_ lit. _the Lord Jehovah_. The divine name
Jehovah was not pronounced in the synagogue reading, the word Lord
(A.V. in that case Lord) being substituted for it; but when the...
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_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND -- ZEPHANIAH 1:7-13:_ Zephaniah 1:7
says, "Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of
the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, h...
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HE HATH BID— _He hath appointed his guests,_ that is to say, the
Babylonians....
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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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Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the
LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid
his guests.
HOLD THY PEACE AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD -...
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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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HOLD THY PEACE.... — Literally, _Hush at the presence of_ the Lord
God. This peculiar phrase is repeated in Habakkuk 2:20.
A SACRIFICE. — The word includes the idea of the feast in which it
was custom...
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(7-13) The judgment, in reference to its objects....
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הַ֕ס מִ פְּנֵ֖י אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה
כִּ֤י קָרֹוב
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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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_Silent. Hebrew has, (Haydock) an interjection, (St. Jerome) like our
hush. (Haydock) --- This denotes the importance of what he is going to
say. --- Guests. The blood of the wicked is his victim, Jer...
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O "Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the
LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid
his guests. (8) And it shall come to pass in the day of the L...
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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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_IRRESISTIBLE JUDGMENT_
‘Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the
Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, He hath bid
His guests.’
Zephaniah 1:7
Zephaniah...
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The Prophet confirms here what he has previously taught, when he bids
all _to be silent before God_; for this mode of speaking is the same
as though he had said, that he did not terrify the Jews in va...
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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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HOLD THY PEACE AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD,.... When he comes
forth, and appears in the way of his judgments, do not dispute the
point with him, or pretend to offer reasons against his proceedings...
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Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the
LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid
his guests.
Ver. 7. _Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lo...
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_Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord_ Keep silence in token of
an awful reverence toward God. _For the day of the Lord is at hand_
Now he is coming to execute his judgments upon the land. Humbl...
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Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God! ready to submit to His
judgment as outlined above; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND, when
His punishment must strike the transgressors; FOR THE LORD H...
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THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
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BID:
_ Heb._ sanctified or prepared...
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7-13 God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is
a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be
reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap...
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HOLD THY PEACE; thou that murmurest in discontent, or disputest out of
frowardness against God, his worship, and his government, that
thinkest of him but little better than of Baal or Malcham, cease a...
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Zephaniah 1:7 silent H2013 (H8761) presence H6440 Lord H136 GOD H3069
day H3117 LORD H3068 hand H7138 LORD...
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THE DAY OF YHWH AGAINST JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 1:7).
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...
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FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD
As in the other Prophets, the approaching invasion of Nebuchadnezzar
is treated as an adumbration of the true day of the Lord in which all
earth-judgments will culminate, to b...
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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 day of the Lord is at hand._
THE DAY OF WAR, THE DAY OF HORRORS
The war day is represented here--
I. As a day of enormous sacrifice.
1. Sacrifice of life. Among several classes.
(1) Royalty....
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:7 The Day of the Lord. The rest of
Zephaniah’s prophecy discusses the “day of the Lord.” This
“day” brings judgment on the wicked (Zephaniah
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ZEPHANIAH 1:7.] Judgment speedily comes. HOLD] A summons to silent
submission (Habakkuk 2:20); the reason given, the day near. SACRIFICE]
of victims of justice (Isaiah 34:6;...
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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...
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1 Samuel 16:5; 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 2:9; 1 Samuel 20:26; 2 Peter 3