Zephaniah 1:4-6

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 pagan priest would be overthrown. God's hand would be stretched out against Judah and upon all the inhabitants of capital city, Jerusalem. 2 Kings 23:4-5 pictures the overthrow of Baal in these words. "The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." Many went upon the housetops for the purpose of worshipping the sun, moon and stars. God would destroy them also. These people tried to mix idolatrous worship with the worship of the true and living God. They would bow down to the god Malcham, the chief god of the Ammonites while claiming loyalty to Jehovah. Nothing would remain of anyone who had turned back from the Lord or that had failed to seek Him.