Zephaniah 1:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the trumpet and alarm. an alarming trumpet. Figure of speech Hendiadys. a trumpet, yea,. trumpet [call] "to arms"! Compare Zephaniah 2:2.

towers. Hebrew corners. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the towers usually fixed there.

Zephaniah 1:16

16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.