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THE STUMBLING-BLOCKS WITH THE WICKED - Not only shall the wicked be
utterly brought to an end, or, in the other meaning of the word,
“gathered into bundles to be taken away,” but all causes of
stumbli...
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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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I WILL CONSUME. Note the Figure of speech _Anaphora_. Three times
repeated.
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_ with. _eth_. humanity App-14.
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), for emphasis.
ST...
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Zephaniah 1:3 particularises the "all things" of Zephaniah 1:2, cattle
and fowl and fishes of the sea, and man. Hosea 4:3, "Therefore shall
the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall lan...
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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 CONSUME, &C.— _I will take away;_ namely, from the land of
Judah. Houbigant; who, instead of, _And the stumbling-blocks with the
wicked,_ reads, _I will bring ruin on the wicked._ Others read,...
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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 consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven,
and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked;
and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD....
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STUMBLINGBLOCKS] or, slightly correcting the text to bring it into
harmony with the rest of the v., 'I will destroy the wicked.'...
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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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THE STUMBLINGBLOCKS WITH THE WICKED. — _i.e.,_ the enticements to
sin together with the sinners. The word _macshêlâh_ is used in
Isaiah 3:6 in the sense of “a ruin.” Here, however, such a
significatio...
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אָסֵ֨ף אָדָ֜ם וּ בְהֵמָ֗ה אָסֵ֤ף עֹוף
־הַ
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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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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the (a) fowls of the
heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the
wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD....
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_Sea: the waters and air shall be pestilential. (Haydock) --- St.
Jerome frequently observes that when a country is depopulated, as the
Roman empire was in his days, the most fertile regions were soon...
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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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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 CONSUME MAN AND BEAST,.... Wicked men for their sins, and
beasts for the sins of men; and, as a punishment for them, the
creatures whom they have abused to the gratifying of their lusts:
I WIL...
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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven,
and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked;
and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
Ver...
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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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THE NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT...
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I will consume man and beast, even the creatures being affected by the
universality of the judgment; I WILL CONSUME THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN
AND THE FISHES OF THE SEA, AND THE STUMBLING-BLOCKS WITH THE...
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STUMBLINGBLOCKS:
Or, idols...
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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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The former verse denounced the future desolation in general terms.
This verse specifieth what desolation in particular God would bring
upon the land. I WILL CONSUME MAN AND BEAST; man shall be consume...
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Zephaniah 1:3 consume H5486 (H8686) man H120 beast H929 consume H5486
(H8686) birds H5775 heavens H8064 fish...
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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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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 1:3 The listing of MAN AND BEAST... THE
BIRDS... AND THE FISH, terms that occur in the creation account
(Genesis 1:20,...
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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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Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 15:6; Ezekiel 44:12; Ezeki