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Verse Zephaniah 2:12. _YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO_] Nebuchadnezzar subdued
these. See Jeremiah 46:2; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:4;...
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YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO, YE SHALL BE SLAIN BY MY SWORD - Literally, “Ye
Ethiopians also, the slain of My sword are they.” Having summoned
them to His throne, God speaks of them, not to them anymore; perhap...
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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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YE. See note on "For", Zephaniah 2:4....
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The judgment of the Day of the Lord upon the nations
The nations on whom the impending judgment shall fall are: (1) the
Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4); (2) Moab and Ammon (Zephaniah 2:8); (3)
Cush or th...
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Threat against Ethiopia
Ethiopia or Cush was the country lying south of Egypt. Stretching from
Syene (Assouan) southward, it corresponded to Nubia and the modern
Soudan. Its capital is supposed to ha...
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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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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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Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO, YE SHALL BE SLAIN BY MY SWORD. Fulfilled when
Nebuchadnezzar (God's sword, as was the Assyrian, ) conquered Egypt,
with which...
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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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ETHIOPIANS] lit. 'Cushites,' i.e. the Egyptians who at this time were
ruled by Ethiopian rulers. Ethiopia was the part of Egypt S. of the
first cataract of the Nile.
13-15. Assyria with its capital ci...
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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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(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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Ethiopia is to suffer by the sword in the execution of God’s purpose
of magnifying His people. The conjunction of Ethiopia and Assyria is
probably suggested by the earlier passage in Nahum 3:8. _et se...
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גַּם ־אַתֶּ֣ם כּוּשִׁ֔ים חַֽלְלֵ֥י
חַרְבִּ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃...
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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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_Ethiopians. Hebrew Cushim, denotes also the Arabs, &c., who fell a
prey to the Chaldeans. (Calmet)_...
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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 extends farther the threatened vengeance, and says, that
God would also render to the Ethiopians the reward which they
deserved; for they had also harassed the chosen people. But if God
pu...
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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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YE ETHIOPIANS ALSO,.... Or, "as for ye Ethiopians also" h; not the
Ethiopians in Africa beyond Egypt, at a distance from the land of
Israel, and the countries before mentioned; but the inhabitants of...
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Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.
Ver. 12. _Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword_] Which
is long enough to reach you, though far remote. The poets feign that
Jupiter w...
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_Ye Ethiopians also shall be slain_ Here a denunciation of divine
wrath is uttered against the Ethiopians, as, Zephaniah 2:8, against
the Moabites and Ammonites. It is said that they should be slain b...
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Ye Ethiopians also, representatives of the heathen nations of the
South, YE SHALL BE SLAIN BY MY SWORD, the statement in the third
person dismissing them as of no further importance....
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THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...
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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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The prophet doth not speak of the African Ethiopians, south of Egypt,
but of the Arabian Ethiopians, much nearer to Canaan, whose country
was called Cusaea, with the addition Ethiopia Cusaea. See HABA...
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THE ETHIOPIANS (ZEPHANIAH 2:12).
Zephaniah 2:12
“You Ethiopians also, you will be slain by my sword.”
This brief reference takes us by surprise. The Ethiopians (Cushi)
would probably be the furthest...
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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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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:12 CUSHITES are Ethiopians and other
northeastern African peoples (Zephaniah 3:10;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ZEPHANIAH 2:12.] Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt, with
which Ethiopia was closely allied (Jeremiah 46:2; Jeremiah 46:9;...
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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 30:4; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 18:1; Isaiah 20:4;...
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By my sword — The Chaldeans are called God's sword; because God
employed them....