Zephaniah 2:12

Ye Morians also shalbe slaine by my sword with them.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

In Context

11The Lord will be terrible vnto them: for he wil consume all the gods of the earth, and euery man shall worship him from his place, euen all the yles of the heathen.

13And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Asshur, and will make Nineueh desolate, and waste like a wildernesse.

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:5O Asshur, the rodde of my wrath: and the staffe in their hands is mine indignation.

Isaiah 18:1Oh, the lande shadowing with winges, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia,

Isaiah 20:4So shall the King of Asshur take away the captiuitie of Egypt, and the captiuitie of Ethiopia, both yong men and olde men, naked and barefoote, with their buttockes vncouered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 43:3For I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy Sauiour: I gaue Egypt for thy ransome, Ethiopia, and Seba for thee.

Jeremiah 47:6O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be or thou cease! turne againe into thy scaberd, rest and be still.

Ezekiel 30:4And the sword shall come vpon Egypt, and feare shall be in Ethiopia, when the slaine shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken downe.

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 2:9-12

The Punishment of Various Nations. ( b. c. 612.) 8 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. 9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.… Read the whole commentary →

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