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Zefanya 3:1
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
her that is filthy: or, gluttonous, Heb. craw, Leviticus 1:16
to the: Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 59:13, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 22:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Micah 2:2, Zechariah 7:10, Malachi 3:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Psalms 55:10 - mischief Isaiah 1:5 - the whole Isaiah 1:21 - it was full Isaiah 4:4 - washed away Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 3:5 - thou hast spoken Jeremiah 5:3 - thou hast stricken Jeremiah 9:13 - General Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 13:27 - Woe Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 32:32 - they Jeremiah 38:4 - the princes Jeremiah 51:5 - though Lamentations 1:5 - for Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Ezekiel 16:23 - woe Ezekiel 16:36 - Because Ezekiel 19:2 - A lioness Ezekiel 33:29 - because Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 5:2 - a rebuker Nahum 3:1 - to 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud
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And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.
But wo is him that is alone: for yf he fal, he hath not another to helpe him vp.
In that day the Lord with his sore, great, and mightie sworde, shall visite Leuiathan the fugitiue serpent, euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
And when the tempter came to hym, he sayde: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made breade.
And saith vnto hym: If thou be the sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe. For it is written: He shall geue his Angels charge ouer thee, & with their handes they shall lyft thee vp, lest at any tyme thou dashe thy foote agaynst a stone.
And sayth vnto hym: All these wyll I geue thee, yf thou wylt fall downe, and worshyp me.
Beholde, I sende you foorth, as sheepe in the middest of woolfes. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and harmelesse as doues.
And no maruayle, for Satan himselfe is transfourmed into an angel of lyght.
Lykewyse ye husbandes dwell with them accordyng to knowledge, geuyng honour vnto the wyfe, as vnto the weaker vessell, and as vnto them that are heires also of the grace of lyfe, that your prayers be not hyndered.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Woe to her that is filthy, and polluted,.... Meaning the city of Jerusalem, and its inhabitants; not as before the Babylonish captivity, but after their return from it, under the second temple, as Abarbinel owns; and even as in the times before and at the coming of Christ, and the preaching of his apostles among them; as the whole series of the prophecy, and the connection of the several parts of it, show; and there are such plain intimations of the conversion of the Gentiles, and of such a happy state of the Jews, in which they shall see evil no more, as can agree with no other times than the times of the Gospel, both the beginning and latter part of them. The character of this city, and its inhabitants, is, that it was "filthy", and polluted with murders, adulteries, oppression, rapine, and other sins: our Lord often calls them a wicked and an adulterous generation; and yet they pretended to great purity of life and manners; and they were pure in their own eyes, though not washed from their filthiness; they took much pains to make clean the outside of the cup, but within were full of impurity, Matthew 23:25. In the margin it is, "woe to her that is gluttonous". The word is used for the craw or crop of a fowl, Leviticus 1:16 hence some render it t "woe to the craw"; to the city that is all craw, to which Jerusalem is compared for its devouring the wealth and substance of others. The Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time are said to devour widows' houses, Matthew 23:14 and this seems to be the sin with which they were defiled, and here charged with. Some think the word signifies one that is publicly, infamous; either made a public example of, or openly exposed, as sometimes filthy harlots are; or rather one "that has made herself infamous" u; by her sins and vices:
to the oppressing city! that oppressed the poor, the widow, and the fatherless. This may have respect to the inhabitants of Jerusalem stoning the prophets of the Lord sent unto them; to the discouragements they laid the followers of Christ under, by not suffering such to come to hear him that were inclined; threatening to cast them out of their synagogues if they professed him, which passed into a law; and to their killing the Lord of life and glory; and the persecution of his apostles, ministers, and people: see Matthew 23:13. Some render it, "to the city a dove" w; being like a silly dove without heart, as in Hosea 7:11. R. Azariah x thinks Jerusalem is so called because in its works it was like Babylon, which had for its military sign on its standard a dove; Hosea 7:11- : Hosea 7:11- : Hosea 7:11- : but the former sense is best.
t הוי מוראה "vae ingluviei", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. u ουας τη παραδειγματιζομηνη "vae huic quae infamatur", L'Empereur Not. in Mosis Kimchii οιδοποζια "ad scientiam", p. 174. so Drusius and Tarnovius. w חעיר היונה πολις η περιστερα, Sept. "civitas columba", V. L.; so Syr. Ar. Jarchi, and other Jewish interpreters. x Meor Enayin, c. 21. fol. 90. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The “woe,” having gone round the pagan nations, again circles round where it began, the “Jerusalem that killed the prophets and stoned those that were sent unto her” Matthew 23:37. Woe upon her, and joy to the holy Jerusalem, the “new Jerusalem Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:10, the Jerusalem which is from above, the mother of us all,” close this prophecy; both in figure; destruction of her and the whole earth, in time, the emblem of the eternal death; and the love of God, the foretaste of endless joy in Him.
Woe - “Rebellious and polluted;” “thou oppressive city!” . The address is the more abrupt, and bursts more upon her, since the prophet does not name her. He uses as her proper name, not her own name, city of peace,” but “rebellious,” “polluted;” then he sums up in one, thou “oppressive city.”
Jerusalem’s sin is threefold, actively rebelling against God; then, inwardly defiled by sin; then cruel to man. So then, toward God, in herself, toward man, she is wholly turned to evil, not in passing acts, but in her abiding state:
(1) rebellious
(2) defiled
(3) oppressive
She is known only by what she has become, and what has been done for her in vain. She is rebellious, and so had had the law; defiled, and so had been cleansed; and therefore her state is the more hopeless.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
The prophet reproves Jerusalem, and all her guides and rulers,
for their obstinate perseverance in impiety, notwithstanding
all the warnings and corrections which they had received from
God, 1-7.
They are encouraged, however, after they shall have been
chastised for their idolatry, and cured of it, to look for
mercy and restoration, 8-13;
and exited to hymns of joy at the glorious prospect, 14-17.
After which the prophet concludes with large promises of
favour and prosperity in the days of the Messiah, 18-20.
We take this extensive view of the concluding verses of this
chapter, because an apostle has expressly assured us that in
EVERY prophetical book of the Old Testament Scriptures are
confined predictions relative to the Gospel dispensation.
See Acts 3:24.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Zephaniah 3:1. Wo to her that is filthy — This is a denunciation of Divine judgment against Jerusalem.
