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Verse 6. _I HAVE CUT OFF THE NATIONS_] Syria, Israel, and those
referred to, Isaiah 36:18; Isaiah 36:20. - _Newcome_....
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I HAVE CUT OFF THE NATIONS - God appeals to His judgments on pagan
nations, not on any particular nation, as far as we know; but to past
history, whether of those, of whose destruction Israel itself h...
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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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TOWERS. See note on Zephaniah 1:16....
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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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Zephaniah 3:6 continues the preceding: Jehovah's righteous rule is
exercised not only in the midst of Israel itself but also among the
nations without. His judgments among the nations were also meant...
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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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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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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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(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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THE NATIONS. — Those that were destroyed by the agency of Israel on
invading the Promised Land; those also which were cut off by the
Assyrians and the other great powers whom God used as His instrumen...
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הִכְרַ֣תִּי גֹויִ֗ם נָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙
פִּנֹּותָ֔ם הֶחֱרַ֥בְתִּי
חֽוּצֹותָ֖ם...
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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 have (d) 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.
(d) By...
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_Towers. Literally, "angles," (Haydock) the chiefs, or to the very
last, Job xxxviii. 6., and Zacharias x. 4. The nations have been
punished for an example. But you do not take warning. (Calmet)_...
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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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Here the Prophet shows in another way that there was no hope for a
people, who could not have been instructed by the calamities of
others, to seek to return to God’s favor. For God here complains
that...
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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 HAVE CUT OFF THE NATIONS,.... Utterly destroyed them, as the
Philistines, Moabites, Ethiopians, and Assyrians, as in the preceding
Chapter s; all which were done before the coming of Christ in the
f...
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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.
Ver. 6. _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 have cut off the nations, also as an act of warning for Israel;
THEIR TOWERS ARE DESOLATE, their walls and fortresses leveled to the
ground; I MADE THEIR STREETS WASTE, the roads obliterated, THAT N...
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THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...
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TOWERS:
Or, corners...
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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 HAVE CUT OFF THE NATIONS; of old the Canaanites, lately the ten
tribes, later yet the Assyrians and others, have been cut off for
their sins. THEIR TOWERS; either metaphorically, magistrates and gre...
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Zephaniah 3:6 off H3772 (H8689) nations H1471 fortresses H6438
devastated H8074 (H8738) streets H2351 desolate H2717
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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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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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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:1 God’s people cannot think that
they will emerge unscathed on the day of the Lord. If they sin (vv.
Zephaniah 3:1) and are shameless (v....
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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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1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Corinthians 10:6; Isaiah 10:1; Isaiah 16:14;...
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The nations — Of old, the Canaanites, lastly the ten tribes, and
later yet, the Assyrians....