Zephaniah 2:9 Topical Bible

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Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah--a place of weeds and saltpits, and a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

People

Ammonites, Cherethites, Cushites, Ethiopians, Zephaniah

Places

Ashdod, Ashkelon, Assyria, Canaan, Ekron, Gaza, Gomorrah, Jerusalem, Moab, Nineveh, Sodom

Topics

Affirmation, Age, Almighty, Ammon, Ammonites, Armies, Breeding, Breeding-place, Cause, Certainly, Declares, Desolation, Forever, Gomorrah, Gomor'rah, Heritage, Hosts, Inherit, Lay, Moab, Nation, Nettles, Overflow, Overrunning, Perpetual, Pits, Plants, Plunder, Pools, Possess, Possessed, Possession, Prey, Property, Remainder, Remnant, Residue, Rest, Salt, Saltpits, Salt-pits, Says, Seize, Sodom, Sons, Spoil, Surely, Survivors, Truly, Unpeopled, Waste, Wasteland, Weeds

Outline

1. An exhortation to repentance.
4. The judgment of the Philistines,
8. of Moab and Ammon,
12. of Ethiopia,
13. and of Assyria.

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Zephaniah 2:9

4357 salt
4540 weeds

5800 blasphemy
8817 ridicule, objects of

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Library

Caesarea. Strato's Tower.
The Arabian interpreter thinks the first name of this city was Hazor, Joshua 11:1. The Jews, Ekron, Zephaniah 2:4. "R. Abhu saith," (he was of Caesarea,) "Ekron shall be rooted out"; this is Caesarea, the daughter of Edom, which is situated among things profane. She was a goad, sticking in Israel, in the days of the Grecians. But when the kingdom of the Asmonean family prevailed, it overcame her, &c. R. Josi Bar Chaninah saith, What is that that is written, 'And Ekron shall be as a Jebusite?' (Zech …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

The Indwelling and Outgoing Works of God.
"And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."--Psalm xxxiii. 6. The thorough and clear-headed theologians of the most flourishing periods of the Church used to distinguish between the indwelling and outgoing works of God. The same distinction exists to some extent in nature. The lion watching his prey differs widely from the lion resting among his whelps. See the blazing eye, the lifted head, the strained muscles and panting breath. One can see that the crouching lion is laboring intensely. …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

Of the Decrees of God.
Eph. i. 11.--"Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will."--Job xxiii. 13. "He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth." Having spoken something before of God, in his nature and being and properties, we come, in the next place, to consider his glorious majesty, as he stands in some nearer relation to his creatures, the work of his hands. For we must conceive the first rise of all things in the world to be in this self-being, the first conception …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Parallel Verses

NASB: "Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."

KJV: 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 saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

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