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 did not obey the voice. She did not receive correction. She did not trust in the LORD. She did not draw near to her God.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

For he said, "Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely:" so he was their Savior.

I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

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

saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things that make for peace. But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with you, 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 forevermore.

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

saying, 'Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: 'If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's officers, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.

Howsoever

For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD, 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.

Therefore the LORD brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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

Corrupted

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved 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 punish them for their sins.

General references

This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over 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 those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the Lord GOD.