Zephaniah 1:9

Leap on the threshold] Evidently here also the crime is that of the members of the court, perhaps a foreign religious custom: cp. 1 Samuel 5:5. But as there is no reference to religious customs in the context, the words may simply refer to the retainers of the king, who were in constant attendance at his doors, and who used their influence to enrich themselves at the cost of others. Fill their masters' houses (Heb. 'house') with violence and deceit] i.e. by their acts of oppression and injustice.

10. The reference is to the advance of the enemy against Jerusalem from the N. The fish gate was at the northern end of the Tyropœan valley (cp. Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 12:39), and opened into the second or new quarter: cp. 2 Kings 22:14 RV.