Zephaniah 1:9
Good News Translation
I will punish all who worship like pagans and who steal and kill in order to fill their master's house with loot.

New Revised Standard Version
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

Contemporary English Version
I will punish worshipers of pagan gods and cruel palace officials who abuse their power.

New American Bible
I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

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1 Samuel 5:5 And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For this cause neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this day.

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1 Samuel 2:15,16 Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw. . . .

2 Kings 5:20-27 But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him. . . .

Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Proverbs 29:12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Acts 16:19 But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, apprehending Paul and Silas, brought them into the market place to the rulers.

Context
The Day of the LORD
8And it shall come to pass in the day of the victim of the Lord, that I will visit upon the princes, and upon the king's sons, and upon all such as are clothed with strange apparel: 9And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.10And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great destruction from the hills.…
Cross References
Judges 19:27
And in the morning the man arose, and opened the door, that he might end the journey he had begun: and behold his concubine lay before the door with her hands spread on the threshold.

1 Samuel 5:5
And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For this cause neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this day.

Jeremiah 5:27
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

Amos 3:10
And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

Zephaniah 1:8
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