Zephaniah 2:3 Topical Bible

◄ Zephaniah 2:3 ►

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the Day of the LORD's anger.

People

Ammonites, Cherethites, Cushites, Ethiopians, Zephaniah

Places

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

Topics

Anger, Carried, Commands, Covered, Executed, Heart, Hid, Hidden, Humble, Humility, Judgment, Kept, Lord's, Meek, Meekness, Ones, Ordinance, Ordinances, Performed, Perhaps, Quiet, Righteousness, Safely, Search, Seek, Sheltered, Wrath, Wrought

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 2:3

     1125   God, righteousness
     5790   anger, divine
     8158   righteousness, of believers
     8160   seeking God
     8276   humility
     8305   meekness

Zephaniah 2:1-3

9220 day of the LORD

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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: Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD'S anger.

KJV: Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

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