Ezekiel 25:5; Isaiah 17:2; Zephaniah 2:14; Zephaniah 2:15
The seacoast shall be dwellings and cottages - o , literally, cuttings or diggings. This is the central meaning of the word; the place of the Ch...
Zephaniah 2. Doom on Philistia [Moab and Ammon], Ethiopia, and Assyria. Zephaniah 2:1-7 . Having spent its rage on Judah, the storm of Divine jud...
dwellings . pastures. cottages . pens.
The Prophet confirms what he has before said respecting the future vengeance of God, which was now nigh at hand to the Moabites and other neigh...
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the sea-coasts shall be dwellings - Newcome considers כר...
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for...
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. Je...
(4-7) The sentence against the great Philistine strongholds.
(4-15) Jehovah’s chastisement of foreign powers. These Divine visitations are introduced somewhat abruptly. The connection is perhaps that they are i...
Dwellings and cottages for shepherds. — Better, places for shepherds ’ pastures. In c ’ rôth (best taken as plural of car, “a pasture”) ther...
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 wa...
NINIVE DELENDA Zephaniah 2:4-15 THERE now come a series of articles on foreign nations, connected with the previous prophecy by the conjunction...
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 lowl...
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 opport...
"For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (5) Woe unto the i...
‘THE RESTING FLOCK AT EVENTIDE’ ‘The sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the coast shall be for the...
And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds ,.... That tract of land which lay on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, inhabite...
And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. Ver. 6. And the sea coasts shall be dwellings and cottage...
For Gaza shall be forsaken The prophet digresses here to foretel the fate of some cities and nations bordering on Judea; probably with a view to sh...
The Punishment of the Philistines. B. C. 612....
This confirms the former, tells us what shall be in those parts; instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be cottages for shepherds watch...
The Philistines ( Zephaniah 2:4-7 ). Zephaniah 2:4-5 ‘For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noon...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 2:4 . For ] The punishment of neighbouring states a warning. Five nations, from all quarters of the earth, to indica...
Zephaniah 2:1 . Gather yourselves together, for fasting and prayer, oh nation not desired, whose practices are lothed and abhorred; a nation who...
For Gaza shall be forsaken. The sinner’s baleful influence, and God’s disposal of all I. The calamities falling upon one sinner often involve o...
EXPOSITION. Verse 2:1-3:8 Part II . EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE AND TO PERSEVERANCE . Zephaniah 2:1-36 § 1. The prophet urges...
The Exhortation and the Doom of the Philistines
And the seacoast, then teeming with the life of rich commercial cities, shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, dugouts and shanties, or pla...
For shepherds — Instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be only cottages for shepherds.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.