Zephaniah 2:8

The Commander of the armies of angels, the God to whom we Israeli people belong, says this: “I have heard the people of Moab and Ammon when they insulted [DOU] my people, and when they said that they would conquer my people’s country.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

In Context

7The people of Judah who ◄survive/are still alive► will possess that land. At night they will sleep in the deserted houses in Ashkelon. Yahweh will take care of them; he will enable them to prosper again.

9So now, as surely as I live, I will destroy Moab and Ammon like [SIM] I destroyed Gomorrah city. Their land will be a place were there are nettles and salt pits; it will be ruined forever. My Israeli people who survive will take away all their valuable possessions and also occupy their land.”

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Cross References

Genesis 19:37The older one later gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moab people-group.

Psalms 83:4They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”

Jeremiah 12:14This is also what Yahweh said to me: “ I will punish the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.

Jeremiah 48:27You people of Moab ridiculed the people of Israel [RHQ]. You treated them as though they were thieves [RHQ]. You shook your head at them scornfully and despised them [RHQ].

Ezekiel 25:1Some time later, Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

Ezekiel 25:8This is also what Yahweh the Lord says: “ The people of Moab south of Ammon and the people of Seir south of Moab despised Israel and said, ‘The people [MTY] of Israel have become as unimportant as all the other nations!’

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 2:5-8

The Punishment of the Philistines. ( b. c. 612.) 4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7 And the coast shall be for the… Read the whole commentary →

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