Zephaniah 3:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

Surely

2 Peter 3:9

So

Howsoever

Corrupted

Genesis 6:12

Deuteronomy 4:16

Hosea 9:9

General references

Isaiah 14:26

Ezekiel 32:32

Bible References

Surely

She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

So

then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.

then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever.

saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore;

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.

Howsoever

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Corrupted

And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

General references

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.