Zephaniah 2:12

By my sword — The Chaldeans are called God's sword; because God employed them.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword - Literally, “Ye Ethiopians also, the slain of My sword are they.” Having summoned them to His...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

ye. See note on "For", Zephaniah 2:4 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet extends farther the threatened vengeance, and says, that God would also render to the Ethiopians the reward which they deserved; fo...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. Ye Ethiopians also - Nebuchadnezzar subdued these. See Jeremiah 46:2 , Jeremiah 46:9 ; Ezekie...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar (God's sw...
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. Je...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ethiopians ] lit. 'Cushites,' i.e. the Egyptians who at this time were ruled by Ethiopian rulers. Ethiopia was the part of Egypt S. of the first cat...
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 i...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ethiopia is to suffer by the sword in the execution of God’s purpose of magnifying His people. The conjunction of Ethiopia and Assyria is probably su...
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...
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 lowl...
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 opport...
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 agai...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ye Ethiopians also ,.... Or, "as for ye Ethiopians also" h; not the Ethiopians in Africa beyond Egypt, at a distance from the land of Israel, and th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword. Ver. 12. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword ] Which is long enough to reach yo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ye Ethiopians also shall be slain Here a denunciation of divine wrath is uttered against the Ethiopians, as, Zephaniah 2:8 , against the Moabites...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ethiopia and Assyria Threatened. B. C. 612....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The prophet doth not speak of the African Ethiopians, south of Egypt, but of the Arabian Ethiopians, much nearer to Canaan, whose country was called...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Ethiopians ( Zephaniah 2:12 ). Zephaniah 2:12 “You Ethiopians also, you will be slain by my sword.” This brief reference takes us by surpr...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 2:12 .] Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia was closely allied ( Jeremiah 46:2 ; Je...
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 who...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Door of Moab, Amman, and Assyria
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ye Ethiopians also, representatives of the heathen nations of the South, ye shall be slain by My sword, the statement in the third person dismissin...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 30:4-9 ; Isaiah 10:5 ; Isaiah 13:5 ; Isaiah 18:1-7 ; Isaiah 20:4 ; Isaiah 20:5 ; Isaiah 43:3 ; Jeremiah 46:10 ; Jeremiah 46:9 ; Jer...

¹² Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

Related Commentaries of Zephaniah 2:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zephaniah 2:12