Zephaniah 2
DiodatiZephaniah 2:1
GAther your selves] All your assemblies, whereby you shall endevour to defend your selves, shall be but like great bundles of stalkes and flaxe to be consumed altogether by the fire of Gods wrath: Zephaniah 1:18.
Zephaniah 2:2
Before] This verse must be joyned with the next. The meaning is; before Gods decree against his people be put in execution: you Believers shall flie to his Grace by Prayer and conversion.
Zephaniah 2:3
All ee meeke] A title which is ordinarily given to good men Be hid] Saved and defended.
Zephaniah 2:4
Gaz] The Philistims, and all other enemies of the Church shall be utterly destroyed, without hope of being restored But I will preserve some seed and remainder of my people, to re-establish them in the oppointed time: wherefore let every one of you endevour to be of that blessed number Ashdd]. The Inhabitants thereof shall be lead into captivitie A the noone] The City being forced, and taken by assault.
Zephaniah 2:5
The Sea-coast] Where the Philistines land was: 1 Samuel 30:14; 1 Samuel 30:16. Ezech. 25. 16 O Cnaan] Of which the Philistines were a part: os. 13. 3.
Zephaniah 2:7
Shall be for] This may be understood in part; and corporally, of the possession which the Jewes tooke of the Philistines land at their returne from Babylon: But it is perfectly meant by the spirituall dominion of the Church, joyned with Christ her Head, over all her spirituall enemies: See Isaiah 11:1-16; Isaiah 14:1-32.
Zephaniah 2:11
For he] The chiefe end of all those terrible judgements, shall be to root out those peoples Idolatries; annd cause the true God alone to be worshipped (which hath been accomplished under Christ Jesus.) The Iles] The far countreys, especially, beyond the Sea.
Zephaniah 2:13
He will stretch] Because the destruction of Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire happened, as it is thought; in the time of Jehoiakim, after Zephaniah’s Prophecies.
Zephaniah 2:14
In the upper] See upon Amos 9:1 Uncover the] Her roofe, and all her timber workes being burnt downe, there shall remaine nothing but the walls of ruined houses.
Zephaniah 2:15
Shall hisse] In horror and disdaine.