Zephaniah 2:12 KJV — MannaFest

Zephaniah 2:12

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

KJV

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ASV

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

WEB

“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”

YLT

Also ye, O Cushim, pierced of My sword are they.

DBT

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be the slain of my sword.

About this book

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Zephaniah — A great-great-grandson of Hezekiah prophesying in Josiah's day. Judgment on Judah, judgment on the nations, and a closing song of the LORD singing over his people.

Author: Zephaniah, son of Cushi, four generations from Hizkiah (Hezekiah) — 1:1
Date: During Josiah's reign, c. 640–609 BC

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Ezekiel 30:4–9
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Isaiah 18:1
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Ezekiel 30:24
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Isaiah 43:3
For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Jeremiah 46:9–10
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

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Nebuchadnezzar was God's sword, the instrument in his hand with which these and other enemies were subdued and punished, Ps. xvii. The Assyrians, and Nineveh the head city of their monarchy, are next set to the bar, to receive their doom: He that is God's sword will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and make himself master of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

3 Seek ye the L ORD , all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the L ORD 's anger. Here we see what the prophet meant in that terrible description of the approaching judgments which we had in the foregoing chapter.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar (God's sword, Isa 10:5) conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia was closely connected as its ally (Jer 46:2-9; Ye--literally, "They." The third person expresses estrangement; while doomed before God's tribunal in the second person, they are spoken of in the third as aliens from God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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