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Zephaniah Chapter 1

Zephaniah
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Zephaniah

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The chapter opens with a declaration that the day of the Lord is coming and that God will bring great judgment upon Judah. It describes how the king's son will be taken and the people will be afflicted, emphasizing that the punishment is for their disobedience. The overall theme is the imminent, divine judgment that follows the nation's sin.

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(1) The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
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Ezekiel 1:3Hosea 1:1II Timothy 3:16II Peter 1:19II Kings 22:1II Kings 22:2II Kings 22:3II Kings 22:4II Kings 22:5II Kings 22:6II Kings 22:7II Kings 22:8

(2) I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
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II Kings 22:16II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 36:21Isaiah 6:11Jeremiah 6:8Jeremiah 6:9Jeremiah 24:8Jeremiah 24:9Jeremiah 24:10Jeremiah 34:22Jeremiah 36:29Ezekiel 33:27

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Zechariah 14:12

(3) I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 4:23Jeremiah 4:24Jeremiah 4:25Jeremiah 4:26Jeremiah 4:27Jeremiah 4:28Jeremiah 4:29Jeremiah 12:4Hosea 4:3Isaiah 27:9Ezekiel 7:19Ezekiel 14:3

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Zechariah 14:12Revelation 4:7Psalms 37:20Psalms 59:13Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4

(4) I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
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Exodus 15:12II Kings 21:13Isaiah 14:26Isaiah 14:27II Kings 23:4II Kings 23:5II Chronicles 34:4Hosea 10:5

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33II Kings 10:19II Kings 10:21II Kings 10:23

(5) And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
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II Kings 23:12Jeremiah 19:13Jeremiah 32:29I Kings 18:21II Kings 17:33II Kings 17:41Matthew 6:24Deuteronomy 10:20Isaiah 48:1Jeremiah 4:2Hosea 4:15Isaiah 44:5

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Jeremiah 12:16Matthew 23:16Daniel 3:15John 4:22John 4:23John 4:24

(6) And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
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I Samuel 15:11Psalms 36:3Psalms 125:5Isaiah 1:4Jeremiah 2:13Jeremiah 2:17Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 15:6Ezekiel 3:20Hosea 4:15Hosea 4:16Hosea 11:7

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II Kings 1:5Psalms 78:57Jeremiah 46:5

(7) Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
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I Samuel 2:9I Samuel 2:10Job 40:4Job 40:5Psalms 46:10Psalms 76:8Psalms 76:9Isaiah 6:5Amos 6:10Habakkuk 2:20Zechariah 2:13Romans 3:19

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II Samuel 16:19I Samuel 16:5Ezekiel 39:17

(8) 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.
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Isaiah 10:12Isaiah 24:21II Kings 23:30II Kings 23:31II Kings 23:32II Kings 23:33II Kings 23:34II Kings 24:12II Kings 24:13II Kings 25:6II Kings 25:7II Kings 25:19

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Esther 8:8Esther 4:2Esther 6:9Psalms 68:27Jeremiah 26:10Jeremiah 36:12

(9) In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
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I Samuel 5:5I Samuel 2:15I Samuel 2:16II Kings 5:20II Kings 5:21II Kings 5:22II Kings 5:23II Kings 5:24II Kings 5:25II Kings 5:26II Kings 5:27Nehemiah 5:15

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Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(10) And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
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Zephaniah 1:7Zephaniah 1:15Jeremiah 39:2Isaiah 22:4Isaiah 22:5Isaiah 59:11Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 4:21Jeremiah 4:31Amos 8:3II Chronicles 33:14

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Isaiah 15:8Jeremiah 49:21

(11) Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
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Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 25:34Ezekiel 21:12Joel 1:5Joel 1:13Zechariah 11:2Zechariah 11:3James 5:1Nehemiah 3:31Nehemiah 3:32Hosea 12:7Hosea 12:8

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33II Samuel 18:20Genesis 23:16Exodus 38:17

(12) And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
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Jeremiah 16:16Jeremiah 16:17Amos 9:1Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Obadiah 1:6Jeremiah 48:11Amos 6:1Revelation 2:23Job 21:15Psalms 10:11Psalms 10:12

(13) Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
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Zephaniah 1:9Isaiah 6:11Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 24:2Isaiah 24:3Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 5:17Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 9:19Jeremiah 12:10Jeremiah 12:11

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Isaiah 65:21Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13Ezekiel 28:26Amos 9:14Jeremiah 29:5

(14) The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
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Zephaniah 1:7Jeremiah 30:7Ezekiel 30:3Joel 2:1Joel 2:11Joel 2:31Malachi 4:5Acts 2:20Revelation 6:17Ezekiel 7:6Ezekiel 7:7Ezekiel 7:12

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Genesis 27:25Genesis 33:7Genesis 45:4Numbers 16:5Joshua 10:24I Kings 18:30

(15) That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
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Zephaniah 1:18Zephaniah 2:2Isaiah 22:5Jeremiah 30:7Amos 5:18Amos 5:19Amos 5:20Luke 21:22Luke 21:23Romans 2:5II Peter 3:7Revelation 6:17

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Joel 2:2Deuteronomy 4:11Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Isaiah 8:22

(16) A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
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Isaiah 59:10Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 6:1Jeremiah 8:16Hosea 5:8Hosea 8:1Amos 3:6Habakkuk 1:6Habakkuk 1:7Habakkuk 1:8Habakkuk 1:9

(17) And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
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Deuteronomy 28:28Deuteronomy 28:29Psalms 79:3Isaiah 29:10Isaiah 59:9Isaiah 59:10Lamentations 4:14Matthew 15:14John 9:40John 9:41Romans 11:7Romans 11:25

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Matthew 15:14Isaiah 42:19

(18) Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
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Zephaniah 1:11Psalms 49:6Psalms 49:7Psalms 49:8Psalms 49:9Psalms 52:5Psalms 52:6Psalms 52:7Proverbs 11:4Proverbs 18:11Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 2:21

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Ezekiel 7:19Exodus 38:17II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:15Daniel 3:17

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