Zephaniah 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will also, Heb. And I will, or, And I have; so prophets speak of what shall most certainly be as if already done. Stretch out mine hand: this seems to intimate. some immediate stroke from God, he speaks so in Jeremiah 51:25 Ezekiel 6:14, Ezekiel 14:13 25:13. Upon Judah; Benjamin is included, though Judah only is named. Upon all the inhabitants; it will be universal destruction of them, either by sword, famine, pestilence, or captivity; both citizens and sojourners, all shall perish, or suffer by some or other of these ways. Of Jerusalem: though it was the holy city, beautified with the temple of God, yet all should not secure it, Jeremiah 7:4 Ezekiel 9:6. I will cut off the remnant of Baal; whatsoever remains of the idolatry of Baal, both the idols, their temples, sacrifices, priests, ornaments, and worshippers: whether this refers to times after the reformation by Josiah, or to times before it, needs not scrupulously be inquired into. From this place: this idolatry had filled Jerusalem itself. The names; both the persons, and the memory of them also, for names includeth both. The Chemarims; either called so from their black garments they went in, or from their swarthy colour accustomed by the black smoke of incense, which they were almost continually in; or door-keepers, sextons of Baal; or voluntary servants; or such as the popish monks, some ministers of Baal distinct from the priests. The priests; either the priests of Baal, or the apostates of Aaron's house, who (though priests by birth and office) should have been stedfast to, but had fallen from the true God and his worship to Baal and his worship.