Zephaniah 2:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. ”

• Zephaniah 2:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This shall they have for their pride - Literally, “This to them instead of their pride.” Contempt and shame shall be the residue of the proud man; the exaltation shall be gone, and all which they...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Into the natural context of the passage a later writer has woven a prophecy of vengeance on Moab and Ammon for their revilings and insults heaped upon Judah (on the day of Jerusalem's downfall), For...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. Because they have reproached - See on Zechariah 2:8 (note).

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. This shall they have for their pride - (cf. Zephaniah 2:8...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jehovah's impending Judgment upon Judah's Neighbours and Foes The universal note which is struck in Zechariah 1:2-3 is now further amplified. Jehovah's agents of punishment, the Scythians, shall...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (4-15) Jehovah’s chastisement of foreign powers. These Divine visitations are introduced somewhat abruptly. The connection is perhaps that they are intended to lead God’s people to repent, and put th...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  NINIVE DELENDA Zephaniah 2:4-15 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 i...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - 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 th...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - 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...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - 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 t...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  This shall they have for their pride ,.... This calamity shall come upon their land, the land of the Moabites and Ammonites, for their pride, which often goes before a fall; and has frequently been...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of hosts. Ver. 10. This shall they have for their pride ] Moabites were...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of Ammon These countries were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem: see the places referred to in th...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Punishment of Various Nations. B. C. 612.       8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This shall they have; this grievous ruin like Sodom s, this just retaliation; they insulted over Israel, Israel shall tread on them. For their pride; haughty mind and carriage: see Zephaniah 2:...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Moab and Ammon ( Zephaniah 2:8-11 ). Zephaniah 2:8 “I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the children of Ammon, With which they have reproached my people, And magnified th...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 2:8 . Moab ] and Ammon rejoiced in the calamity of the Jews. Compare parallel prophecies against Moab (Isaiah 15, 16; Jeremiah 48 ; Amos 2:1-3 ), and Ammon ( Jeremi...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - 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. Zephani...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I have heard the reproach of Moab. The persecution of the good I. That good men are often subject to annoyances from the ungodly world. “I have heard the reproach [abuse] of Moab, and the revil...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION. Verse 2:1-3:8 Part II . EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE AND TO PERSEVERANCE . Zephaniah 2:1-36 § 1. The prophet urges all to examine their ways before the day of the L...

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Door of Moab, Amman, and Assyria

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• Zephaniah 2:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:5 ; Daniel 4:37 ; Daniel 5:20-23 ; Exodus 10:3 ; Exodus 9:17 ; Ezekiel 38:14-18 ; Isaiah 10:12-15 ; Isaiah 16:6 ; Isaiah 37:22-29 ; Jeremiah 48:29 ; Obadiah 1:3 ; Zephaniah 2:8...

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