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Zephaniah 1:8
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On the day of the Lord’s sacrificeI will punish the officials, the king’s sons,and all who are dressed in foreign clothing.
It will happen in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who as are clothed with foreign clothing.
And it shall come to passe in the day of the Lords Sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the kings children, and al such as are clothed with strange apparell.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord 's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
And on the day of the Lord 's sacrifice— "I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
"Then it will come about on the day of the LORD'S sacrifice That I will punish the princes, the king's sons, And all who clothe themselves with foreign garments.
On the day of the Lord 's sacrifice, I, the Lord , will punish the princes and the king's sons and all those who wear foreign clothes.
"Then it will come about on the day of the LORD'S sacrifice That I will punish the princes and the king's sons And all who are clothed in [lavish] foreign apparel [reflecting their paganism].
And it shalbe in the day of the Lords sacrifice, that I will visite the princes and the Kings children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparell.
"Then it will come about on the day of the LORD'S sacrifice That I will punish the princes, the king's sons And all who clothe themselves with foreign garments.
"Then it will be on the day of Yahweh's sacrificeThat I will punish the princes, the king's sons,And all who clothe themselves with foreign garments.
On the Day of the LORD's sacrifice I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all who are dressed in foreign apparel.
On that day I will punish national leaders and sons of the king, along with all who follow foreign customs.
When the time comes for Adonai 's sacrifice — "I will punish the leaders and the sons of the king, also those who dress in foreign clothes.
And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
The Lord said, "On the Lord 's day of sacrifice, I will punish the king's sons and other leaders. I will punish all the people wearing clothes from other countries.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORDS sacrifice that I will punish the princes and the kings children, and all such as are clothed in strange apparel.
"On that day of slaughter," says the Lord , "I will punish the officials, the king's sons, and all who practice foreign customs.
And it shall be that on the day of the sacrifice of Yahweh, I will punish the officials and the sons of the king and those who dress in foreign clothing.
And it shall be in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, I will punish the rulers and the king's sons, and all those clothed in foreign clothing.
And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
And thus shall it happen, in the day of the Lordes sacrifice I will visite the princes and the kinges children, and al such as weare straunge clothing.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will take vengeance on the princes, and on the king’s house, and upon all that wear strange apparel.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who as are clothed with foreign clothing.
And it schal be, in the dai of sacrifice of the Lord, Y schal visite on princes, and on sones of the kyng, and on alle that ben clothid with pilgrimys, ether straunge, clothing.
And it shall come to pass in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
"On the day of the Lord 's sacrificial meal, I will punish the princes and the king's sons, and all who wear foreign styles of clothing.
"And it shall be, In the day of the LORD's sacrifice, That I will punish the princes and the king's children, And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
"On that day of judgment," says the Lord , "I will punish the leaders and princes of Judah and all those following pagan customs.
"On the day of the Lord's gift, I will punish the leaders, the king's sons, and all who dress themselves with strange clothes.
And it shall come to pass, in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the rulers, and the sons of the king, - and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel;
And it shall come to pass in the day of the victim of the Lord, that I will visit upon the princes, and upon the king’s sons, and upon all such as are clothed with strange apparel:
And on the day of the LORD'S Sacrifice--"i will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
And it hath come to pass, In the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, That I have laid a charge on the heads, And on sons of the king, And on all putting on strange clothing.
And thus shall it happen in the daye of the LORDES a slaynofferynge: I will vyset the prynces, the kinges children, & all soch as weere strauge clothinge.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
punish: Heb. visit upon, Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 24:21, *marg.
the princes: 2 Kings 23:30-34, 2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 24:13, 2 Kings 25:6, 2 Kings 25:7, 2 Kings 25:19-21, Isaiah 39:7, Jeremiah 22:11-19, Jeremiah 22:24-30, Jeremiah 39:6, Jeremiah 39:7
strange: Deuteronomy 22:5, 2 Kings 10:22, Isaiah 3:18-24
Reciprocal: Isaiah 29:2 - and it shall Jeremiah 46:10 - the sword Zechariah 10:3 - punished
Cross-References
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them "Humankind" when they were created.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice,.... When the above sacrifice prepared shall be offered, and the slaughter of his people made, when his wrath shall be poured out upon them, within the time of its beginning and ending:
that I will punish the princes, and the king's children; either the children of Josiah, who, though a good prince, his children did evil in the sight of the Lord, and were punished by him: Jehoahaz, after a three months' reign was carried down to Egypt, and died there; Jehoiakim, his elder brother, that succeeded him, rebelling against the king of Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign, fell into his hands, and died, and was buried with the burial of an ass; and Jeconiah his son was carried captive into Babylon, and there remained to the day of his death; and with him were carried the whole royal family, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, 2 Kings 24:14 or else the children of Zedekiah, another son of Josiah, and the last of the kings of Judah, who was carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who before his eyes slew his sons, and all the princes of Judah, and then put out his eyes, and bound him in chains,
Jeremiah 52:10 and thus this prophecy had its accomplishment:
and all such as are clothed with strange apparel; either which they put on in honour of the idols they worshipped, as Jarchi; so the heathens wore one sort of garments for one idol, and another sort for another; or these were men of a pharisaical cast, who wore garments different from others, that they might be thought to be very holy and religious, which sense is mentioned by Kimchi; or they were such, which he also observes, who, seeing some to have plenty of good clothes, stole them from them, and put them on; or such who arrayed themselves in garments that did not belong to their sex, men put on women's garments, and women clothed themselves with men's, and both strange apparel; or rather this points at such persons, who, in their apparel, imitated the fashions and customs of foreign nations; which probably began with the king's children and courtiers, and were followed by others. The Targum is,
"and upon all those that make a noise at the worship of idols.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will punish - (Literally, visit upon). God seems oftentimes to be away from His own world. People plot, design, say, in word or in deed, âwho is Lord over us?â God is, as it were, a stranger in it, or as a man, who hath âtaken a journey into afar country.â God uses our own language to us. âI will visit,â inspecting (so to say), examining, sifting, reviewing, and when manâs sins require it, allowing the weight of His displeasure to fall upon them.
The princes - The prophet again, in vivid detail (as his characteristic is), sets forth together sin and punishment. Amid the general chastisement of all, when all should become one sacrifice, they who sinned most should be punished most. The evil priests had received their doom. Here he begins anew with the mighty of the people and so goes down, first to special spots of the city, then to the whole, man by man. Josiah being a godly king, no mention is made of him. Thirteen years before his death, he received the promise of God, âbecause thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord - I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy grave in peace, and thou shalt not see all the evil which I will bring upon this placeâ 2 Kings 22:19-20. In remarkable contrast to Jeremiah, who had to be, in detail and continual pleading with his people, a prophet of judgment to come, until these judgments broke upon them, and so was the reprover of the evil sovereigns who succeeded Josiah, Zephaniah has to pronounce Godâs judgments only on the âprincesâ and âthe kingâs children.â
Jeremiah, in his inaugural vision, was forewarned, that âthe kings Judah, its princes, priests, and the people of the landâ Jeremiah 1:18 should war against him, because he should speak unto them all which God should command him. And thenceforth, Jeremiah impleads or threatens kings and the princes together Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 4:9; Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 24:8; Jeremiah 32:37; Jeremiah 34:21. Zephaniah contrariwise, his office lying wholly within the reign of Josiah, describes the princes again as âroaring lionsâ Zephaniah 3:3, but says nothing of the king, as neither does Micah Micah 3:1, Micah 3:9, in the reign, it may be, of Jotham or Hezekiah. Isaiah speaks of princes, as ârebellious and companions of thievesâ Isaiah 1:23. Jeremiah speaks of them as idolaters Jeremiah 31:32-34; Jeremiah 44:21. They appear to have had considerable influence, which on one occasion they employed in defense of Jeremiah Jeremiah 26:16, but mostly for evil Jeremiah 37:15; Jeremiah 38:4, Jeremiah 38:16. Zedekiah inquired of Jeremiah secretly for fear of them Jeremiah 37:17; Jeremiah 38:14-27. They brought destruction upon themselves by what men praise, their resistance to Nebuchadnezzar, but against the declared mind of God. Nebuchadnezzar unwittingly fulfilled the prophetsâ word, when he âslew all the nobles of Judah, the eunuch who was over the war, and seven men of them that were near the kingâs person, and the principal scribe of the hostâ Jeremiah 39:6; Jeremiah 52:25-27.
And the kingâs children - Holy Scripture mentions chief persons only by name. Isaiah had prophesied the isolated lonely loveless lot of descendants of Hezekiah who should be âeunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylonâ Isaiah 39:7, associated only with those intriguing pests of Eastern courts, a lot in itself worse than the sword (although to Daniel God overruled it to good) and Zedekiahâs sons were slain before his eyes and his race extinct. Jehoiakim died a disgraced death, and Jehoiachin was imprisoned more than half the life of man.
And all such as are clothed with strange apparel - Israel was reminded by its dress, that it belonged to God. It was no great thing in itself; âa band of dark blue Numbers 15:38; Deuteronomy 22:12 upon the fringes at the four corners of their garments.â But âthe band of dark blueâ was upon the high priestâs mitre, with the plate engraved, âHoliness to the Lordâ Exodus 28:36, fastened upon it; âwith a band of dark blueâ also was the breastplate Exodus 39:21 bound to the ephod of the high priest. So then, simple as it was, it seems to have designated the whole nation, as âa kingdom of priests, an holy nationâ Exodus 19:6. It was appointed to them, âthat ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring; that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your Godâ Numbers 15:39-40. They might say, âit is but âa band of blue;ââ but the âband of blueâ was the soldierâs badge, which marked them as devoted to the service of their God; indifference to or shame of it involved indifference to or shame of the charge given them therewith, and to their calling as a peculiar people. The choice of the strange apparel involved the choice to be as the nations of the world; âwe will be as the pagan, as the families of the countriesâ Ezekiel 20:33.
All luxurious times copy foreign dress, and with it, foreign manners and luxuries; from where even the pagan Romans were zealous against its use. It is very probable that with the foreign dress foreign idolatry was imported . The Babylonian dress was very gorgeous, such as was the admiration of the simpler Jews. âHer captains and rulers clothed in perfection, girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing dyed attire upon their headsâ Ezekiel 23:12, Ezekiel 23:15. Ezekiel had to frame words to express the Hebrew idea of their beauty. Jehoiakim is reproved among other things for his luxury Jeremiah 22:14-15. Outward dress always betokens the inward mind, and in its turn acts upon it. An estranged dress betokened an estranged heart, from where it is used as an image of the whole spiritual mind Romans 13:14; Colossians 3:12; Ephesians 4:24. Jerome: âThe garment of the sons of the king and the apparel of princes which we receive in Baptism, is Christ, according to that, âPut ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,â and âPut ye on bowels of mercy, goodness, humililty, patience,â and the rest. Wherein, we are commanded to be clothed with the new man from heaven according to our Creator, and to âlay asideâ the clothing of âthe old man with his deedsâ Ephesians 4:22. Whereas, then we ought to be clothed in such raiment, for mercy we put on cruelty, for patience, impatience, for righteousness, iniquity; in a word, for virtues, vices, for Christ, antichrist. Whence it is said of such an one, âHe is clothed with cursing as with a garmentâ Psalms 109:17. These the Lord will visit most manifestly at His Coming.â Rup.: âThinkest thou that hypocrisy is âstrange apparel?â Of a truth. For what stranger apparel than sheepsâ clothing to ravening wolves? What stranger than for him who âwithin is full of iniquity, to appear outwardly righteous before men?â Matthew 23:28.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 8. I will punish the princes, and the king's children — After the death of Josiah the kingdom of Judah saw no prosperity, and every reign terminated miserably; until at last King Zedekiah and the king's children were cruelly massacred at Riblah, when Nebuchadnezzar had taken Jerusalem.
Strange apparel — I really think this refers more to their embracing idolatrous customs and heathen usages, than to their changing their dress. They acquired new habits, as we would say; customs, that they used as they did their clothing-at all times, and in every thing.
