Zephaniah 2:1
Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 8:1And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.
Esther 4:16Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.
Isaiah 1:10Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 3:3So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
Jeremiah 12:7I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
Joel 2:12But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 2:1
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 ( ver. 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, ver. 4-7 . 2. The Moabites and Ammonites, ver. 8-11 . 3. The… Read the whole commentary →