Zephaniah 1:4
And I will stretch out mine hand upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will remove the names of Baal out of this place, and the names of the priests;
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Exodus 15:12Thou stretchedst forth thy right hand, the earth swallowed them up.
2 Kings 23:4And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the + 23:4 The Gr. is from the Heb. word.fields of Kedron, and + 23:4 Gr. cast.took the ashes of them to Bæthel.
2 Kings 23:12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.
Isaiah 14:26This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.
Hosea 10:5The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from them.
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 1:2-7
Zephaniah This 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… Read the whole commentary →