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Zephaniah 1:16

Zephaniah 1:16
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, &c.] The trumpet of the enemy, sounding the alarm of war against the fenced cities of Judea, which were taken before Jerusalem; calling and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

A day of the trumpet and alarm - o that is, of the loud blast of the trumpet, which sounds alarm and causes it. The word is especially the shrill loud noise of the trumpet (for sacred purposes in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Zephaniah 1:14-18

Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Besides the supernatural terrors of the judgment there is the hostile assault which the supernatural terrors accompany.

A day of the trumpet and alarm The "trumpet" was blown amidst the attack (Jdg…