Zephaniah 2:13 BSB — MannaFest

Zephaniah 2:13

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

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ASV

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

KJV

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Zephaniah (420)

(Verse 12 and following) But even you, Ethiopians, will be killed by my sword: and he will stretch out his hand over the North, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make a beautiful place desolate, and like a deserted wilderness. And flocks will lie down in the midst of it: all the beasts of the nations, and the pelican, and the hedgehog will dwell in its thresholds: the voice of the singer in the window, the raven on the top. For I will weaken its strength.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction, “I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah” Zep 1:4; he sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; “He will stretch out, or, Stretch He forth, “His Hand against the north and destroy Asshur, and make Nineveh a desolation.” Judah had, in Zephaniah’s time, nothing to fear from Assyria. Isaiah Isa 39:6 and Micah Mic 4:10 had already foretold, that the captivity would be to Babylon. Yet of Assyria alone the prophet, in his own person, expresses his own conformity with the mind of God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here he passes suddenly to the north. Nineveh was destroyed by Cyaxares and Nabopolassar, 625 B.C. The Scythian hordes, by an inroad into Media and thence in the southwest of Asia (thought by many to be the forces described by Zephaniah, as the invaders of Judea, rather than the Chaldeans), for a while interrupted Cyaxares' operations; but he finally succeeded.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְיֵ֤ט	ve.Yet	and he may stretch out	H5186 →
יָדוֹ֙	ya.Do	hand his	H3027 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
צָפ֔וֹן	tza.Fon	[the] north	H6828 →
וִֽיאַבֵּ֖ד	vi.'a.Bed	so he may destroy	H6 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אַשּׁ֑וּר	'a.Shur	Assyria	H804 →
וְיָשֵׂ֤ם	ve.ya.Sem	and he may make	H7760 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
נִֽינְוֵה֙	ni.ne.Veh	Nineveh	H5210 →
לִשְׁמָמָ֔ה	lish.ma.Mah	<into> a waste	H8077 →
צִיָּ֖ה	tzi.Yah	a dry region	H6723 →
כַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃	ka.mid.Bar	like the wilderness	H4057 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H8077lishmamah<into> a waste57×

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Nahum 3:7
Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
leads to
- Jeremiah 15:5
  Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
- Isaiah 51:19
  These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
- Revelation 18:10
  In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
Through
Isaiah 10:12
So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud…
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:18
  Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
Through
Nahum 1:1
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
leads to
- Jonah 1:2
  “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
- Zechariah 9:1
  This is the burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place—for the eyes of men and of all the tribes of Israel are upon the…
- Nahum 2:8
  Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
Through
Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 32:21
  and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in…

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