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Verse Zephaniah 3:3. _HER PRINCES _- ARE _ROARING LIONS_] Tearing all
to pieces without shadow of law, except their own despotic power.
_HER JUDGES_ ARE _EVENING WOLVES_] Being a little afraid of the...
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The prophet having declared the wickedness of the whole city,
rehearses how each in Church and state, the ministers of God in
either, who should have corrected the evil, themselves aggravated it.
Not...
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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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GNAW NOT: or, reserve not....
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Every class does evil, each in its own way. A very full parallel is
Ezekiel 22:25-28 (in Ezekiel 22:25 read _princes_). The "princes" may
be the royal house, or the magnates in whose hands lay the jud...
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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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_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 princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening
wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Her princes within her are roaring lions - "roaring" for pray (; ; ;...
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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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TILL THE MORROW. — Better, _on the morrow._ The meaning is just the
opposite to that given in the Authorised Version. They are so greedy
that they devour their prey instantly, leaving _no_ portion of...
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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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שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְ קִרְבָּ֔הּ אֲרָיֹ֖ות
שֹֽׁאֲגִ֑ים שֹׁפְטֶ֨יהָ֙...
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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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Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening
wolves; they (b) gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
(b) They are so greedy, that they eat up bones and all....
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_Evening. Septuagint, "Arabian," Habacuc i. 8. Such was the state of
the kingdom before the reform of Josias. (Calmet)_...
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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 now explains what we have stated respecting plunder and
fraud. He confirms that he had not without reason called Jerusalem
היונה, _eiune_, a rapacious city, or one given to plunder; for
th...
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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 PRINCES WITHIN HER [ARE] ROARING LIONS,.... Or, "as roaring
lions"; there being a defect of the note of similitude; which is
supplied by the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic
v...
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Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening
wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Ver. 3. _Her princes within her are roaring lions_] Roaring over the
meaner sort,...
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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 princes within her are roaring lions, bent upon rapine and murder;
HER JUDGES ARE EVENING WOLVES, driven forth by hunger in the evening,
their greed being insatiable; THEY GNAW NOT THE BONES TILL...
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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 PRINCES; persons of principal place and authority about the king,
chief officers in civil matters. and, which is worse, her own princes,
born and bred among them, who should have been most tender...
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Zephaniah 3:3 princes H8269 midst H7130 roaring H7580 (H8802) lions
H738 judges H8199 (H8802) evening H6153 wolves...
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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 3:3 The city’s OFFICIALS (Zephaniah
1:8; 1 Chronicles
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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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Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 22:6; Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 1:23; Jeremiah 22: