Zephaniah 1:9
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New International Version
On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.


English Standard Version
On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.


New American Standard Bible
"And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold, Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.


King James Bible
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
On that day I will punish all who skip over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.


International Standard Version
At the same time, I'll punish every idol worshipper, especially those who are filling their master's temple with violence and deceit.


American Standard Version
And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master's house 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.


Darby Bible Translation
And in that day will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.


Young's Literal Translation
And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters With violence and deceit.


Commentaries
1:7-13 God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their neighbours' rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned with. They are secure and easy; they say in their heart, the Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil; that is, they deny his dispensing rewards and punishments. But in the day of the Lord's judgment, it will clearly appear that those who perish, fall a sacrifice to Divine justice for breaking God's law, and because they have no interest by faith in the Redeemer's atoning sacrifice.

9. those that leap on the threshold—the servants of the princes, who, after having gotten prey (like hounds) for their masters, leap exultingly on their masters' thresholds; or, on the thresholds of the houses which they break into [Calvin]. Jerome explains it of those who walk up the steps into the sanctuary with haughtiness. Rosenmuller translates, "Leap over the threshold"; namely, in imitation of the Philistine custom of not treading on the threshold, which arose from the head and hands of Dragon being broken off on the threshold before the ark (1Sa 5:5). Compare Isa 2:6, "thy people … are soothsayers like the Philistines." Calvin's view agrees best with the latter clause of the verse.

fill … masters' houses with violence, &c.—that is, with goods obtained with violence, &c.

Zephaniah 1:8
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