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Zephaniah 1:12

ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON Zephaniah 1:12 The LORD will not do good, nor... ill. These men do not deny God’s existence, but they deny that he cares and acts within his creation. Their attitude rejects a key biblical truth: God is constantly active in history.

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See also Zephaniah 1:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Zephaniah 1:12. _I WILL SEARCH JERUSALEM WITH CANDLES_] I will make a universal and thorough search. _THAT ARE SETTLED ON THEIR LEES_] Those who are _careless_, satisfied with the goods of thi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL SEARCH - (Literally, “diligently”). The word is always used of a minute diligent search, whereby places, persons, things, are searched and sifted one by one in every corner, until it be found w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CANDLES. lamps. EVIL. harm. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The classes in Jerusalem on which the judgment will fall The errors and sins assailed by Zephaniah are the same as those attacked by earlier prophets, e.g. (1) the false worship, Zephaniah 1:4, cf. A...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I will search Jerusalem with candles_ lit. _with lamps_, or, _lanterns_, Luke 15:8. The darkest places shall be penetrated and those lurking in them discovered. Jehovah searches, though it may be by...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1227 THE SECURE AND ATHEISTICAL CONDEMNED Zephaniah 1:12. _It shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE MEN THAT ARE SETTLED ON THEIR LEES— The prophet here describes those men, who, trusting in their riches, paid very little regard to the threats of the prophets, and seemed intirely safe in their o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SEARCH.. WITH CANDLES] i.e. thoroughly, as was required in the poorly-lighted houses of Palestine: cp, Luke 15:8. SETTLED ON THEIR LEES] i.e. have received no infusion of new and noble teachings, but...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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,...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE MEN THAT ARE SETTLED ON THEIR LEES. — The figure is taken from wine which has become harsh from being allowed to stand too long on the lees. The persons intended are selfish sybarites, whose souls...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (7-13) The judgment, in reference to its objects....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָה֙ בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֔יא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with (h) candles, and punish the men that are settled (i) on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neit...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lamps, with the utmost diligence, (Luke xv. 8.) so that none shall escape even in the most filthy places. (Calmet) --- The Romans found many Jews in the common sewers. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vii. 16,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet addresses here generally the despisers of God, who were become hardened in their wickedness. But before he openly names them, he says that the visitation would be such, that God would sear...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AT THAT TIME, [THAT] I WILL SEARCH JERUSALEM WITH CANDLES,.... To find out the sins of the inhabitants of it, and the authors of them, and punish them for them, however hid a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _At that time, I will search Jerusalem with candles_ I will deliver up Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who shall let no corner of it escape them, but shall diligently search the houses, eve...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EXTENT OF THE JUDGMENT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with candles, investigating even the dark and hidden corners, so that not one of the wrong-doers is overlooked, AND PUNISH THE MEN T...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SETTLED: _ Heb._ curded, or thickened...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AT THAT TIME; it was DAY. ZEPHANIAH 1:10, which see. I WILL SEARCH JERUSALEM WITH CANDLES: God speaks after the manner of man, who searcheth dark places with candles in hand. God's omniscience seeth a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 1:12 time H6256 search H2664 (H8762) Jerusalem H3389 lamps H5216 punish H6485 (H8804) men H582 settled

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Zephaniah 1:12 The metaphor of the text appears to be drawn from that of a man who, having cause for suspicion, searches over every part of his house, and goes down to the very foundation; and becaus...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _At that time._ AT THAT TIME The day of the Lord is any season in which He reveals Himself in a special manner. Of the dealings of God with His visible Church on that day the text presents a strikin...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 1:10.] Siege of Jerusalem. GATE] which stood near fish-market (2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:3). SECOND] A part of the city given ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION. ZEPHANIAH 1:1 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD, AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 3:4; Amos 6:1; Amos 9:1; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I will search — God speaks after the manner of men, who searches dark places with candles. He will fully discover and punish. Their lees — In allusion to liquors, which not being poured out from vesse...

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