Zephaniah 1:11

Ezekiel 21:12; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8; James 5:1; Jeremiah 25:34; Jeremiah 4:8; Joel 1:13; Joel 1:5; John 2:16; Nehemiah 3:31; Nehemiah 3:32; Revelation 18:11-18; Zechariah 11:2; Zechariah 11:3

Related Commentaries of Zephaniah 1:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh - Literally, “Mortar” , “in which,” Jerome says, “corn is pounded; a hollow vessel, and fit for the use of medica...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of (g) Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. (g) This is meant of the stree...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Maktesh . the mortar. Probably the local name of the merchants' quarter in the Tyropoeon valley, west of Zion. App-68. So called from its basin-like...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet addresses the merchants here who inhabited the middle part of the city, and hence thought themselves farther off from all danger an...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. Maktesh - Calmet says this signifie...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Maktesh— This may be interpreted, says Houbigant, rock; what follows points out the place of the city where the merchants and silversmiths lived,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. Howl, ye inhabitants of Mak...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Maktesh ] or, 'the mortar': the local designation of the merchants' quarter, which probably lay in the Tyropœan valley, W. of the Temple area.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(7-13) The judgment, in reference to its objects.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Maktesh. — Better, the mortar, a term indicating probably some part of the city lying in a hollow: perhaps that part which was in the valley of T...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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 h...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

O "Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh ,.... The name of a street in Jerusalem, as Aben Ezra; perhaps it lay low in the hollow of the city, and in the form...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. Ver. 11. Howl, ye inhabitants of...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In that day there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish- gate Mentioned Nehemiah 3:3 . It was opposite to Joppa, according to Jerome, and at t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgment Predicted. B. C. 612. 7 Hol...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Howl, cry aloud, and bitterly, ye inhabitants of Maktesh: some read it appellatively: the mortar in which of old, before the corn-mill was known...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Day of YHWH Against Judah and Jerusalem ( Zephaniah 1:7-18 ). Zephaniah 1:7 ‘Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord YHWH. For the day...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 1:10 .] Siege of Jerusalem. Gate ] which stood near fish-market ( 2 Chronicles 33:14 ; Nehemiah 3:3 ). Second ]...
Scofield Reference Notes

Maktesh Literally, The Mortar, a depression in Jerusalem where the bazaars were.
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 g...
The Biblical Illustrator

The day of the Lord is at hand. The day of war, the day of horrors The war day is represented here-- I. As a day of enormous sacrifice. 1....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION. Zephaniah 1:1-36 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON ALL THE WORLD , AND UPON JUDAH IN PARTICULAR . Zephaniah 1:1...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, meaning the mortar, a small section of Jerusalem, so called because it presented a depression or hollow, for all th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Extent of the Judgment
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Howl — Cry aloud, and bitterly. Maktesh — The lower town. Merchant people — Who were wont to lodge in this place. That bear silver — That brought i...

¹¹ Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

Related Commentaries of Zephaniah 1:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zephaniah 1:11