Zephaniah 2:4 BSB — MannaFest

Zephaniah 2:4

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

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ASV

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

KJV

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Zephaniah (420)

(Verse 3, 4) Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have practiced His judgment; seek justice, seek meekness, perhaps you shall be hidden in the day of the Lord's fury. For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation. Ashdod shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted. LXX: Seek the Lord, all you lowly of the earth; do justice, seek righteousness, and answer it, that you may be protected in the day of the Lord's wrath.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Gaza shall be forsaken - This prophecy is against the Philistines. They had been greatly harassed by the kings of Egypt; but were completely ruined by Nebuchadnezzar, who took all Phoenicia from the Egyptians; and about the time of his taking Tyre, devastated all the seignories of the Philistines. This ruin we have seen foretold by the other prophets, and have already remarked its exact fulfillment.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Gaza shall be forsaken--In the Hebrew there is a play of similar sounds, Gaza Gazubah; Gaza shall be forsaken, as its name implies. So the Hebrew of the next clause, Ekron teeakeer. at the noonday--when on account of the heat Orientals usually sleep, and military operations are suspended (2Sa 4:5).

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
עַזָּה֙	'a.Zah	Gaza	H5804 →
עֲזוּבָ֣ה	'a.zu.Vah	abandoned	H5800 →
תִֽהְיֶ֔ה	tih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
וְאַשְׁקְל֖וֹן	ve.'ash.ke.Lon	and Ashkelon	H831 →
לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה	lish.ma.Mah	[will become] <into> a desolation	H8077 →
אַשְׁדּ֗וֹד	'ash.Dod	Ashdod	H795 →
בַּֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙	ba.tzo.ho.Ra.yim	at the noontide<s>	H6672 →
יְגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּהָ	ye.Ga.re.Shu.ha	people will drive out it	H1644 →
וְעֶקְר֖וֹן	ve.'ek.Ron	and Ekron	H6138 →
תֵּעָקֵֽר׃ ס	te.'a.Ker	it will be plucked up	H6131 →

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[will become] <into> a desolation57×

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Through
Jeremiah 25:20
all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
leads to
- Job 1:1
  There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
- Isaiah 20:1
  Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
- Jeremiah 50:37
  A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
- Lamentations 4:21
  So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
- Ezekiel 30:5
  Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.
Through
Jeremiah 15:8
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and…
leads to
- Isaiah 3:25
  Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
- Luke 21:35
  For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.
- Jeremiah 4:16
  Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.

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PlacePhilistine coastGazaChief Philistine city of the coastal road, judged in Amos 1:6-8 and Zephaniah 2:4; scene of Samson's end (Judg 16).

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