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Verse 7. _SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME_] After so many displays of my
sovereign power and judgments.
_BUT THEY ROSE EARLY_] And instead of returning to God, they practised
every abomination. They were di...
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I SAID, SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME - God speaks of things here, as they
are in their own nature. “It could not but be,” that in the very
presence of the Hand of God, destroying others but as yet sparing...
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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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CORRUPTED, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 6:12, same word).
App-92....
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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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God's purpose in these judgments on the nations was that Israel should
take warning from them and receive instruction.
_I said_ Or, _I thought;_Jeremiah 3:19. For _their dwelling_read HER
dwelling.
_...
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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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DISCOURSE: 1229
WHAT RECOMPENCE WE MAY EXPECT FOR OUR NEGLECT OF GOD
Zephaniah 3:7. _I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive
instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoeve...
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THOU WILT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION— _Thou,_ that is, _Jerusalem,_ whom,
nevertheless, the examples of the neighbouring nations, whom God had
destroyed, Zephaniah 3:6 profited not. Instead of, _But they ros...
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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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The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every
morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the
unjust knoweth no shame.
The Jews regard not God's justice...
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SO THEIR DWELLING.. PUNISHED THEM] LXX renders, 'And nothing that I
have enjoined her will be cut off from her sight.'...
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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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I SAID, SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME... — Better, _I said, Wouldest thou
only fear me? wouldest thou receive correction? then should her
dwelling-place not be destroyed, according to all that I have
appoi...
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(5-7) In contradistinction to this universal corruption, Jehovah daily
exemplifies the law of righteousness, yet sinners are not moved to
repentance (Zephaniah 3:5). He sets forth the great judgments...
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אָמַ֜רְתִּי אַךְ ־תִּירְאִ֤י אֹותִי֙
תִּקְחִ֣י מוּסָ֔ר...
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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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I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so
their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but
(e) they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.
(e) The...
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_But. Septuagint, "be prepared, rise early, all their grapes are
corrupt." (Haydock) --- I had reason to expect an amendment, when so
many nations had perished before their eyes. (Calmet) --- They how...
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"I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their
streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so
that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Su...
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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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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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I SAID, SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME,.... This is spoken after the manner
of men; as if God should say within himself, and reason in his own
mind, upon a view of things, surely the people of the Jews will...
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I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so
their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but
they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.
Ver. 7. _I...
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_I have cut off the nations_ I have executed vengeance upon that great
city Nineveh, Zephaniah 2:15, and have brought my judgments nearer to
you, by giving up your brethren of the ten tribes into the...
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I said, Surely thou wilt fear Me, the kindness and tenderness of the
warning being emphasized; THOU WILT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION, if only thou
wouldst suffer thyself to be taught!. SO THEIR DWELLING SHOUL...
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THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...
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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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I SAID; I thought, (speaking as man would,) I concluded what was
likely, what I might expect. SURELY THOU, O Jerusalem, O Judah, wilt
fear me, for the many and great judgments executed upon others in...
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Zephaniah 3:7 said H559 (H8804) fear H3372 (H8799) receive H3947
(H8799) dwelling H4583 off H3772 ...
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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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FEAR
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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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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_I have cut off the nations._
TERRIBLE CALAMITIES IN HUMAN HISTORY
In these verses the prophet sums up all that he had said in the
preceding verses of this chapter, and thus closes his admonition to...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Zephaniah 3:5.] The cause not with God. He is very near, declares his
displeasure with sin, and daily brings all things to light. MORNING]
Lit. in the morning, in the morning. SHAME...
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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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2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Chronicles 32:2; 2 Chronicles
33:11;...
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I said — I thought (speaking after the manner of men). Thou — O
Jerusalem. Fear me — For the many and great judgments executed upon
others. I punished them — In some measure....