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Verse Zephaniah 2:13. _HE WILL - DESTROY ASSYRIA_] He will overthrow
the empire, and _Nineveh_, their metropolitan city. See on Jonah and
Nahum....
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Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction,
“I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah” Zephaniah 1:4; he
sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; “He will stretch
o...
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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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AND HE. See note on "For", Zephaniah 2:4.
STRETCH OUT HIS HAND. Idiom for executing judgment.
THE NORTH: i.e. against Assyria, because although west of Canaan, the
road and entrance was by the north...
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_JUDGMENT AGAINST ETHIOPIA AND ASSYRIA -- ZEPHANIAH 2:12-15:_ The
Ethiopians had also made light of God's people. They likewise would
feel the vengeance of divine wrath. God completed His circle of
Ju...
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WILL MAKE NINEVEH A DESOLATION— Dr. Prideaux observes, that,
Chyniladanus being king of the Assyrian and Babylonian empire,
Nabopolassar his general took the latter from him, in the sixteenth
year of...
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CHAPTER XXI
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD IS UNIVERSAL
Zephaniah 2:4-15
RV. For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall
_drive out_ Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe u...
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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy
Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a
wilderness. AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE NORTH, AND
DESTROY...
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JEHOVAH'S IMPENDING JUDGMENT UPON JUDAH'S NEIGHBOURS AND FOES
The universal note which is struck in Zechariah 1:2 is now further
amplified. Jehovah's agents of punishment, the Scythians, shall carry...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 2
V1 Come together. Come together, (people from) the country that will
not be ashamed!
V2 (Come together) before:...
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(13-15) The sentence against Assyria in the north. This was fulfilled
as early as B.C. 625, when Nineveh was taken and destroyed by the
Medes and Babylonians. It will be remembered that this catastrop...
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(4-15) Jehovah’s chastisement of foreign powers. These Divine
visitations are introduced somewhat abruptly. The connection is
perhaps that they are intended to lead God’s people to repent, and
put the...
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וְ יֵ֤ט יָדֹו֙ עַל ־צָפֹ֔ון וִֽ
יאַבֵּ֖ד
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NINIVE DELENDA
Zephaniah 2:4
THERE now come a series of articles on foreign nations, connected with
the previous prophecy by the conjunction for, and detailing the
worldwide judgment which it had pr...
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MEEKNESS SAVES, PRIDE DESTROYS
Zephaniah 2:1-15
The nation, on the whole, had no remorse, no desire for God; but there
were a few meek and lowly souls, and the hope was held out to them
that they wou...
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After this declaration, the prophet uttered his great appeal, first to
the nation as a whole, calling on it to pull itself together before
the opportunity for repentance should pass, before the hour o...
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_The beautiful city. Ninive, which was destroyed soon after this,
viz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias. (Challoner) (the
year of the world 3378.) --- Hebrew, "he shall make Ninive desola...
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"I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children
of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified
themselves against their border. (9) Therefore as I live, saith th...
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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 proceeds here to the Assyrians, whom we know to have been
special enemies to the Church of God. For the Moabites and the
Ammonites were fans only, as we have elsewhere seen, as they could...
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Chapter 2, while revealing the character of the nation, addresses
itself to her, in order that all those at least who fear Jehovah may
be hidden in the day of His anger. They are called to gather
them...
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AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE NORTH,.... Either the
Lord, or Nebuchadnezzar his sword; who, as he would subdue the nations
that lay southward, he would lead his army northward against t...
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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy
Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a
wilderness.
Ver. 13. _And he will stretch out his hand against the north_...
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_And he will stretch out his hand against the north_ Nor will the
southern nations only be punished, but judgments will be executed by
the divine justice on the nations lying toward the north; _and wi...
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THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
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And He will stretch out His hand against the North, and destroy
Assyria, powerful though it was at that time, AND WILL MAKE NINEVEH,
the capital of Assyria, Jonah 1:2, A DESOLATION, although it was th...
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4-15 Those are really in a woful condition who have the word of the
Lord against them, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. God
will restore his people to their rights, though long kept from...
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AND HE, the Lord God of Israel, or the Chaldean monarch as God's
servant herein, WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND, engage all his power, and
use it to the utmost, against the north, i.e. as follows, Assyria,...
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Zephaniah 2:13 out H5186 (H8799) hand H3027 north H6828 Destroy H6
(H8762) Assyria H804 make H7760 ...
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THE ASSYRIANS (ZEPHANIAH 2:13).
Zephaniah 2:13
‘And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
And destroy Assyria,
And he will make Nineveh a desolation,
And dry like the wilderness.
And h...
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NINEVEH
(_ See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1). _...
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CONTENTS: Call to remnant of Israel in the day of the Lord. Judgment
threatened upon Assyria, Philistia and other nations.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The nations that rebel against the precepts of...
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Zephaniah 2:1. _Gather yourselves together,_ for fasting and prayer,
_oh nation not desired,_ whose practices are lothed and abhorred; a
nation whom God will not own as his chosen people.
Zephaniah 2:...
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_He will stretch out His hand against the north._
NATIONAL PRIDE AND NATIONAL RUIN
Two facts are suggested--
I. That men are often prone to pride themselves on the greatness of
their country. The me...
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:13 God will STRETCH OUT HIS HAND, an
image indicating power and control (compare Genesis 16:12;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ZEPHANIAH 2:13.) The prophet dwells longer on the heathen power of the
north, the Assyrian kingdom with its capital, Nineveh, because Assyria
was then the imperial power, seeking to d...
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EXPOSITION.
VERSE 2:1-3:8
Part II. EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE AND TO PERSEVERANCE.
ZEPHANIAH 2:1
§ 1. The prophet urges all to examine their ways before the day of
the Lord come; and he prays the ri...
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Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired
(Zephaniah 2:1);
Now that "not desired" in the Hebrew literally means "a nation that
knows no shame." They were doing shameful t...
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Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 11:11; Nahum 1:1;...
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He — God. The north — Assyria, which lay northward of Judea, and
due north from Babylon....