Zephaniah 2:4

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will turn into a devastation. 1 They will drive out Ashdod at noon, and they will uproot Ekron! 1

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For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

In Context

3Seek Yahweh, all you humble people on earth who obey his decrees! 1 Seek righteousness. Seek humility, 1 and perhaps you will be protected in the day of Yahweh's wrath. 1

5Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Kerethites! Yahweh has spoken against you, 1 Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until no inhabitant remains. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 91:6or of the plague that roams around in the darkness, 1 or of the disease that comes at noontime. 1

Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows number more than the sands of the seashore. Against the mothers of young men I will send 1 the destroyer at noonday. I will make shock and horror suddenly fall on them. 1

Jeremiah 47:1This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines. This word came to him before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. 1

Amos 1:6This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Gaza, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they carried away captive a whole people, 1 to hand them over to Edom. 1

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 2:2-4

The People Exhorted to Repent. ( b. c. 612.) 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord 's anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the Lord , all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord 's anger. Here we see what the prophet meant in that terrible… Read the whole commentary →

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