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Verse Zephaniah 1:2. _I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME ALL_ THINGS] All being
now ripe for destruction, I will shortly bring a universal scourge
upon the land. He speaks particularly of the idolaters....
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I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME ALL THINGS - Better “all.” The word is not
limited to “things” “animate” or “inanimate” or “men;”
it is used severally of each, according to the context; here, without
limitatio...
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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)...
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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...
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UTTERLY CONSUME. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), for
emphasis. Hebrew. _'asoph 'aseph =_ to end,. end.
CONSUME. take away, or make an end of.
ALL. Omit "things". All; as in Job 42:2....
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Zephaniah 1:2-7. The Universal Judgment of the Day of the Lord
2. _from off the land_ FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE GROUND, i.e. the
earth, cf. Zephaniah 1:3. The judgment is indiscriminate, all that
lives...
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_AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMING JUDGMENT -- ZEPHANIAH 1:1-3:_ This little
book begins, "The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah."
Zephaniah affirms that the message that he wrote was an inspired
mes...
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I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME— _I am about to take away._ Houbigant, to put
to death and destroy. This first chapter contains the general
threatening against all the people whom the Lord had appointed to the...
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UNIVERSAL JUDGEMENT PROCLAIMED. Zephaniah 1:2-3
RV. I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground,
saith Jehovah. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds
of the heav...
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I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME - from a root [ cuwp (H5486)] to sweep away or
scrape off utterly. See the margin, Jeremiah 8:13 ("I wil...
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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...
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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,...
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(1-6) Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem is impending on account of a
religious apostacy of manifold forms and degrees. The wide range of
this judgment....
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In this extensive denunciation there is clearly a reminiscence of
Genesis 7:23. The “fishes of the sea,” however, are substituted
for the “creeping things.” The prophecy in Manasseh’s reign (2
Kings 2...
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אָסֹ֨ף אָסֵ֜ף כֹּ֗ל מֵ עַ֛ל פְּנֵ֥י הָ
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_Gather, &c. That is, I will assuredly take away and wholly consume,
either by captivity or death, both men and beasts out of this land.
(Challoner) --- To gather commonly implies a benefit, but the s...
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O "I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the
LORD. (3) I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of
the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks wit...
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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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It might seem at the first view that the Prophet dealt too severely in
thus fulminating against his own nation; for he ought to have begun
with doctrine, as this appears to be the just order of things...
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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...
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I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME ALL [THINGS] FROM OFF THE LAND, SAITH THE LORD.
That is, from the land of Judah, by means of the Chaldeans or
Babylonians: this is a general denunciation of the judgments of God...
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I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the LORD.
Ver. 2. _I will utterly consume all things from off the land_]
_Exordium plane tragicum._ A tragic beginning of a terrible sermo...
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_I will utterly consume all things_, &c. That is, I will make the land
of Judea quite desolate. _I will consume man and beast_, &c. That is,
beasts of the tame and domestic kind. _I will consume the f...
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I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord,
sweeping it off the face of the earth in an utter devastation....
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THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
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1-6 Ruin is coming, utter ruin; destruction from the Almighty. The
servants of God all proclaim, There is no peace for the wicked. The
expressions are figurative, speaking every where desolation; the...
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I WILL UTTERLY CONSUME, Heb. _Gathering up I will gather up_, or take
up, intimating particularly the manner how all should be consumed,
i.e. swept away as a prey to the Babylonians. FROM OFF THE LAND...
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Zephaniah 1:2 utterly H622 (H8800) consume H5486 (H8686) face H6440
land H127 Says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
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GOD WILL ONE DAY BRING THE WORLD INTO JUDGMENT (ZEPHANIAH 1:2).
These first two verses speak of the apocalyptic future when YHWH will
finally bring His judgment on the world because of their sin. This...
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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...
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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...
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_I will utterly consume all things from off the land._
THE MENACE OF ZEPHANIAH
It would not be easy to find words more fully charged and surcharged
with terror than these. Nor do they grow less sombr...
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_The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah._
THE WORD
I. THE DISTINGUISHING CAPACITY OF MAN, AND THE WONDERFUL CONDESCENSION
OF GOD.
1. The distinguishing capacity of man. To receive the word...
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:2 Judgment Coming against Judah. God
first directs his attention against all living beings (vv. Zephaniah
1:2). He then addresses Judah, r
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ZEPHANIAH 1:2. CONSUME] From root; to destroy, utterly to sweep away
(cf. Jeremiah 8:13) everything (Zephaniah 1:3). “The enumeration of
particulars is designed to augment the fearful...
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EXPOSITION.
ZEPHANIAH 1:1
Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD, AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR....
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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...
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2 Chronicles 36:21; 2 Kings 22:16; 2 Kings 22:17; Ezekiel 33:27;...