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Sofonias 1:1
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Palavra do SENHOR, que veio a Sofonias, filho de Cusi, filho de Gedalias, filho de Amarias, filho de Ezequias, nos dias de Josias, filho de Amom, rei de Jud.
Palavra do SENHOR que veio a Sofonias, filho de Cusi, filho de Gedalias, filho de Amarias, filho de Ezequias, nos dias de Josias, filho de Amom, rei de Jud.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
word: Ezekiel 1:3, Hosea 1:1, 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:19
in the days: 2 Kings 22:1 - 2 Kings 23:37, 2 Chronicles 34:1 - 2 Chronicles 35:27, Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 25:3
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 9:26 - Egypt Jeremiah 36:14 - Cushi Luke 3:2 - the word
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi,.... This is the title of the book, which expresses the subject matter of it, the word of the Lord; the word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum; and shows the divine authority of it; that it was not of himself, nor from any man, but was of God; as well as describes the penman of it by his descent: who or what this his father was; whether a prophet, according to the rule the Jews give, that, when the name of a prophet and his father's name are mentioned, he is a prophet, the son of a prophet; or, whether a prince, a person of some great family, and even of the blood royal, as some have thought, is not certain; or who those after mentioned:
the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah; which last name, consisting of the same letters with Hezekiah, king of Judah, some have thought, as Aben Ezra, that he is intended; and that Zephaniah was a great-grandson of his; and which some think is confirmed by his style and diction, and by the freedom he used with the king's family, Zephaniah 1:8 but it is objected, that, if so it was, Hizkiah, or Hezekiah, would have been called king of Judah; that it does not appear that Hezekiah had any other son besides Manasseh; and that there was not a sufficient distance of time from Hezekiah for four descents; and that, in fact, there were but three generations from him to Josiah, in whose days Zephaniah prophesied, as follows; though it is very probable that these progenitors of the prophet were men of note and character, and therefore mentioned, as well as to distinguish him from others of the same name, who lived
in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah: not Amos, as the Arabic version: Amon and Manasseh, who reigned between Hezekiah and Josiah, were both wicked princes, and introduced idolatrous worship among the Jews; which Josiah in the twelfth year of his reign began to purge the people from, and endeavoured a reformation; but whether it was before or after that Zephaniah delivered out this prophecy is not certain; it may seem to be before, by the corruption of the times described in it; and so it may be thought to have some influence upon the after reformation; though it is thought by many it was after; since, had he been in this office before the finding of the book of the law, he, and not Huldah the prophetess, would have been consulted,
2 Kings 22:14 nor could the people so well have been taxed with a perversion of the law, had it not been as yet found, Zephaniah 3:4 and, besides, the reformation seems to be hinted at in this prophecy, since mention is made of the remnant of Baal, which supposes a removal of many of his images; and also notice is taken of some that apostatized after the renewal of the covenant, Zephaniah 1:4 moreover, the time of the Jews' destruction and captivity is represented as very near, Zephaniah 1:7 which began a little after the death of Josiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; to which Dr. Lightfoot f adds, that the prophet prophesies against the king's children, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah, for their new fashions, and newfangled apparel, Zephaniah 1:8 and therefore it must be in the latter part of his reign; and, if so, it shows how a people may relapse into sin after the greatest endeavours for their good, and the best of examples set them. Mr. Whiston g and Mr. Bedford h place him in the latter part of his reign, about 611 or 612 B.C.: there were three that prophesied about this time, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, and Huldah the prophetess; of whom the Jewish Rabbins say, as Kimchi quotes them, Jeremiah prophesied in the streets, Zephaniah in the synagogues, and Huldah among the women.
f Works, vol. 1. p. 117. g Chronological Tables, cent. 9. h Scripture Chronology, p. 674.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah - It seems likely that more forefathers of the prophet are named than is the wont of Holy Scripture, because the last so named was some one remarkable. Nor is it impossible that Zephaniah should have been the great grandson of the King Hezekiah, for although Holy Scripture commonly names the one son only who is in the sacred line, and although there is one generation more than to Josiah, yet if each had a son early, Zephaniah might have been contemporary with Josiah. The names seem also mentioned for the sake of their meaning; at least it is remarkable how the name of God appears in most. Zephaniah, “whom the Lord hid;” Gedaliah, “whom the Lord made great;” Amariah, “whom the Lord promised;” Hezekiah, “whom the Lord strengthened.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ZEPHANIAH
Chronological Notes relative to this Book, upon the supposition that it was written in the twelfth year of the reign of Josiah, king of Judah
-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3374.
-Year of the Julian Period, 4084.
-Year since the Flood, 1718.
-Year from the vocation of Abram, 1291.
-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 382.
-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 346.
-Year since the conquest of Coroebus at Olympia, usually called the first Olympiad, 147.
-Third year of the thirty-seventh Olympiad.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 124.
-Year of the era of Nabonassar, 118.
-Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 92.
-Year before the birth of Christ, 626.
-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 630.
-Cycle of the Sun, 24.
-Cycle of the Moon, 18.
-Eighteenth year of Phraortes, king of Media. This monarch is supposed by some to have been the same with the Arphaxad of the Apocrypha.
-Eleventh year of Philip I., king of Macedon.
-Twenty-second year of Archidamus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.
-Fifteenth year of Eurycrates II., king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.
-Twenty-ninth year of Cypselus, who had seized upon the government of Corinth.
-Forty-second year of Psammitichus, king of Egypt, according to Helvicus.
-Tenth year of Kiniladachus, king of Babylon, according to the same chronologer. This monarch was the immediate predecessor of Nabopolassar, the father of Nebuchadnezzar.
-Second year of Sadyattes, king of Lydia.
-Eleventh year of Ancus Martius, the fifth king of the Romans.
-Twelfth year of Josiah, king of Judah.
CHAPTER I
This chapter begins with denouncing God's judgments against
Judah and Jerusalem, 1-3.
Idolaters, and sinners of several other denominations, are then
particularly threatened; and their approaching visitation
enlarged on, by the enumeration of several circumstances which
tend greatly to heighten its terrors, 4-18.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Zephaniah 1:1. The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah — Though this prophet has given us so large a list of his ancestors, yet little concerning him is known, because we know nothing certain relative to the persons of the family whose names are here introduced. We have one chronological note which is of more value for the correct understanding of his prophecy than the other could have been, how circumstantially soever it had been delivered; viz., that he prophesied in the days of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah; and from the description which he gives of the disorders which prevailed in Judea in his time, it is evident that he must have prophesied before the reformation made by Josiah, which was in the eighteenth year of his reign. And as he predicts the destruction of Nineveh, Zephaniah 2:13, which, as Calmet remarks, could not have taken place before the sixteenth of Josiah, allowing with Berosus twenty-one years for the reign of Nabopolassar over the Chaldeans; we must, therefore, place this prophecy about the beginning of the reign of Josiah, or from B.C. 640 to B.C. 609. But see the chronological notes.
