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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Zephaniah 2:13-15

(13-15) The sentence against Assyria in the north. This was fulfilled as early as B.C. 625, when Nineveh was taken and destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians. It will be remembered that this catastrophe is the theme of Nahum’s prophecy. Its effects are here described in language similar to that of Nahum 3 which Zephaniah doubtless has in mind.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Zephaniah 2:13. _HE WILL - DESTROY ASSYRIA_] He will overthrow the empire, and _Nineveh_, their metropolitan city. See on Jonah and Nahum....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction, “I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah” Zephaniah 1:4; he sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; “He will stretch o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND HE. See note on "For", Zephaniah 2:4. STRETCH OUT HIS HAND. Idiom for executing judgment. THE NORTH: i.e. against Assyria, because although west of Canaan, the road and entrance was by the north...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _stretch out his hand_ See on Zephaniah 1:4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Threat against Assyria The passage naturally implies that the Assyrian empire had not yet fallen....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WILL MAKE NINEVEH A DESOLATION— Dr. Prideaux observes, that, Chyniladanus being king of the Assyrian and Babylonian empire, Nabopolassar his general took the latter from him, in the sixteenth year of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE NORTH, AND DESTROY...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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:...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ יֵ֤ט יָדֹו֙ עַל ־צָפֹ֔ון וִֽ יאַבֵּ֖ד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The beautiful city. Ninive, which was destroyed soon after this, viz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias. (Challoner) (the year of the world 3378.) --- Hebrew, "he shall make Ninive desola...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet proceeds here to the Assyrians, whom we know to have been special enemies to the Church of God. For the Moabites and the Ammonites were fans only, as we have elsewhere seen, as they could...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST THE NORTH,.... Either the Lord, or Nebuchadnezzar his sword; who, as he would subdue the nations that lay southward, he would lead his army northward against t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness. Ver. 13. _And he will stretch out his hand against the north_...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And he will stretch out his hand against the north_ Nor will the southern nations only be punished, but judgments will be executed by the divine justice on the nations lying toward the north; _and wi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DOOR OF MOAB, AMMAN, AND ASSYRIA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And He will stretch out His hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, powerful though it was at that time, AND WILL MAKE NINEVEH, the capital of Assyria, Jonah 1:2, A DESOLATION, although it was th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND HE, the Lord God of Israel, or the Chaldean monarch as God's servant herein, WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND, engage all his power, and use it to the utmost, against the north, i.e. as follows, Assyria,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 2:13 out H5186 (H8799) hand H3027 north H6828 Destroy H6 (H8762) Assyria H804 make H7760 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ASSYRIANS (ZEPHANIAH 2:13). Zephaniah 2:13 ‘And he will stretch out his hand against the north, And destroy Assyria, And he will make Nineveh a desolation, And dry like the wilderness. And h...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    NINEVEH (_ See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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:...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He will stretch out His hand against the north._ NATIONAL PRIDE AND NATIONAL RUIN Two facts are suggested-- I. That men are often prone to pride themselves on the greatness of their country. The me...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 2:13 God will STRETCH OUT HIS HAND, an image indicating power and control (compare Genesis 16:12;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ZEPHANIAH 2:13.) The prophet dwells longer on the heathen power of the north, the Assyrian kingdom with its capital, Nineveh, because Assyria was then the imperial power, seeking to d...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 11:11; Nahum 1:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He — God. The north — Assyria, which lay northward of Judea, and due north from Babylon....

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