And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, &c.] When the above sacrifice prepared shall be offered, and the slaughter of his people made, when his wrath shall be poured out upon…
Barnes' Notes
I will punish - (Literally, visit upon). God seems oftentimes to be away from His own world. People plot, design, say, in word or in deed, “who is Lord over us?” God is, as it were, a stranger in it,…
Adam Clarke
I will punish the princes, and the king's children - After the death of Josiah the kingdom of Judah saw no prosperity, and every reign terminated miserably; until at last King Zedekiah and the king's…
Notice is here given to Judah and Jerusalem that God is coming forth against them, and will be with them shortly; his presence, as a just avenger, his day, the day of his judgment and his wrath, are…
The classes in Jerusalem on which the judgment will fall
The errors and sins assailed by Zephaniah are the same as those attacked by earlier prophets, e.g. (1) the false worship, Zep 1:4-6, cf. Amo…
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