“ I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. ”
I will utterly consume all things - Better “all.” The word is not limited to “things” “animate” or “inanimate” or “men;” it is used severally of each, according to the context; here, without limi...
The Doom of Judah and Jerusalem. Zephaniah 1:2-6 . 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...
utterly consume. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew. 'asoph 'aseph = to end,. end. consume . take away, or make an end of. all. Omit "things". All; as in...
It might seem at the first view that the Prophet dealt too severely in thus fulminating against his own nation; for he ought to have begun with doctrine, as this appears to be the just order of...
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. I will utterly consume all things - All being now ripe for destruction, I will shortly bring a universal scourge upon the land....
I will utterly consume— I am about to take away. Houbigant, to put to death and destroy. This first chapter contains the general threatening against all the people whom the Lord had appointed to...
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. I will utterly consume - from a root х cuwp ( H5486 )] to sweep away or scrape off utterly. See the margin, Jeremiah...
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 th...
(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.
THE PROPHET AND THE REFORMERS Zephaniah 1:1-18 - 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, pro...
“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 deal...
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. T...
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 wi...
I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the Lord. That is, from the land of Judah, by means of the Chaldeans or Babylonians: this is a general denunciation of the judgments of...
I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the LORD. Ver. 2. I will utterly consume all things from off the land ] Exordium plane tragicum. A tragic beginning of a terrible ser...
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 cons...
Judgment Predicted. B. C. 612. 1 The word of the L ORD which came unto Zephaniah the so...
I will utterly consume, Heb. Gathering up I will gather up , or take up, intimating particularly the manner how all should be consumed, i.e. swept away as a prey to the Babylonians. From off the...
God Will One Day Bring The World Into Judgment ( Zephaniah 1:2-3 ). These first two verses speak of the apocalyptic future when YHWH will finally bring His judgment on the world because of their s...
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 augmen...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION. Zephaniah 1:1-36 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD , AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR . Zephaniah 1:1 § 1. Title and inscription. The word of the...
The Nature of the Judgment
2 Chronicles 36:21 ; 2 Kings 22:16 ; 2 Kings 22:17 ; Ezekiel 33:27-29 ; Isaiah 6:11 ; Jeremiah 24:8-10 ; Jeremiah 34:22 ; Jeremiah 36:29 ; Jeremiah 6:8 ; Jeremiah 6:9 ; Micah 7:13