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Zephaniah 1:9

In that day also will I punish all that leap over the threshold, That fill the houses of their master with violence and deceit.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

In Context

8And in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah it shall come to pass That I will punish the princes and the sons of the king, And all that are clothed with foreign apparel.

10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, That there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, And of a howling from the other part of the city, And of great destruction from the hills.

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:12If a ruler listen to words of falsehood, All his servants become wicked.

Micah 6:12For her rich men are full of violence, And her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Acts 16:19But her masters seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, laid hold of Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the market-place to the rulers;

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 1:8-14

Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 612.) 7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God : for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. 8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord 's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. 10 And it shall come to pass… Read the whole commentary →

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