Zephaniah 2:1
Assemble, be gathered together, O people not worthy to be loved.
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In The King James Version
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 8:1And the seventh month had arrived. Now the sons of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together, like one man, in the street which is before the water gate. And they spoke to Ezra the scribe, so that he would bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had instructed to Israel.
Esther 4:16“Go and gather together all the Jews whom you will find in Susa, and pray for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights, and I will fast with my handmaids similarly, and then I will go in to the king, doing what is against the law, not having been called, and so expose myself to mortal danger.”
Isaiah 1:10Listen to the Word of the Lord, you leaders of the people of Sodom. Listen closely to the law of our God, O people of Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 3:3For this reason, the rain showers were withheld, and there were no late season rains. You made your face like that of a promiscuous woman; you were not willing to blush.
Jeremiah 12:7“I have abandoned my house. I have disowned my inheritance. I have given my beloved soul into the hand of its enemies.
Joel 2:12Now, therefore, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.”
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 →