Zephaniah 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

I will consume man and beast. Enumeration in detail of the "all things" (Zephaniah 1:2: cf. Jeremiah 9:10; Hosea 4:3).

And the stumblingblocks - the idols which cause Judah to offend or stumble (Ezekiel 14:3-4; Ezekiel 14:7).

With the wicked - the idols and their worshippers, inasmuch as the latter are like the former (Psalms 115:8; Deuteronomy 7:26), shall be involved in a common destruction.

Zephaniah 1:3

3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocksa with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.