Chapter Note Matthew Henry Commentary (Complete)
Z E P H A N I A H.
CHAP. II.
In this chapter we have, I. An earnest exhortation to the nation of the Jews to repent and make their peace with God, and so to prevent the judgments threatened before it was too late Zephaniah 2:1 - 3 ), and this inferred from the revelation of God's wrath against them in the foregoing chapter. II. A denunciation of the judgments of God against several of the neighbouring nations that had assisted, or rejoiced in, the calamity of Israel. 1. The Philistines, Zephaniah 2:4 - 7 . 2. The Moabites and Ammonites, Zephaniah 2:8 - 11 . 3. The Ethiopians and Assyrians, Zephaniah 2:12 - 15 . All these shall drink of the same cup of trembling that is put into the hands of God's people, as was also foretold by other prophets before and after.
Book Note Matthew Henry Commentary (Complete)
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EXPOSITION,
W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,
OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
Z E P H A N I A H.
T HIS prophet is placed last, as he was last in time, of all the minor prophets before the captivity, and not long before Jeremiah, who lived at the time of the captivity. He foretels the general destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and sets their sins in order before them, which had provoked God to bring their ruin upon them, calls them to repentance, threatens the neighbouring nations with the like destructions, and gives encouraging promises of their joyful return out of captivity in due time, which have a reference to the grace of the gospel. We have, in the Zephaniah 1:1 , an account of the prophet and the date of his prophecy, which supersedes our enquiry concerning them here.
