Zephaniah 1:9

Zephaniah 1:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
• New International Version (NIV)On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.
• English Standard Version (ESV)On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.
• New King James Version (NKJV)In the same day I will punish All those who leap over the threshold, Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Context of Zephaniah 1:9

7[Hush!] Be silent before the Lord God [there is no acceptable excuse to offer]! For the day [of the vengeance] of the Lord is near, For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice (Judah), He has set apart [for His use] those who have accepted His invitation [the Chaldeans who rule Babylon]. 8“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]. On that day I will also punish all those who leap over the temple threshold, Who fill their [pagan] lord’s temple with violence and deceit. 10On that day,” declares the Lord, “There will be the sound of crying from the Fish (Damascus) Gate [in the northern wall of Jerusalem where invaders enter] And wailing from the Second Quarter [of the city], And a loud crash from the hills. 11Wail [in anguish], you inhabitants of the Mortar (Valley of Siloam), For all the merchants of Canaan will be silenced and destroyed; All who weigh out silver will be cut off.

Zephaniah 1:9 word by word

וּפָקַדְתִּ֗י עַ֧ל כָּל־הַדּוֹלֵ֛ג עַל־הַמִּפְתָּ֖ן בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא הַֽמְמַלְאִ֛ים בֵּ֥ית אֲדֹנֵיהֶ֖ם חָמָ֥ס וּמִרְמָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• In the same dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• also will I punishפָּקַדpâqad · to reckon: punishH6485
• all those that leapדָּלַגdâlag · to leapH1801
• on the thresholdמִפְתָּןmiphtân · thresholdH4670
• which fillמָלֵאmâlê' mâlâ' · to fillH4390
• their masters’אָדוֹן'âdôn 'âdôn · lordH113
• housesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• with violenceחָמָסchâmâs · violenceH2555
• and deceitמִרְמָהmirmâh · deceitH4820

Cross-references for Zephaniah 1:9

• 1 Samuel 5:5This is the reason neither the priests of Dagon nor any who enter Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
• 1 Samuel 2:15Also, before they burned (offered) the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat to roast, since he will not accept boiled meat from you, only raw.”
• 2 Kings 5:20when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “My master has spared this Naaman the Aramean (Syrian), by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
• Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who were [in office] before me put heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them in addition to forty shekels of silver [as an excessive monthly salary]; even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not do so because of the [reverent] fear of God.
• Proverbs 29:12If a ruler pays attention to lies [and encourages corruption], All his officials will become wicked.
• Acts 16:19But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the market place [where trials were held],

Commentaries on Zephaniah 1:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9That leap on the threshold - Or, that leap over the threshold. It is most probable that the Philistines are here meant. After the time that Dagon fell before the ark, and his hands were broken off on the threshold of his temple, his worshippers would no more set a foot upon the threshold, but stepped or leaped over it, when they entered into his temple. The Chaldee understands this of the Philistines, without giving this reason for it. Some understand it…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9I will punish all those that leap on the threshold - Neither language nor history nor context allow this to be understood of the idolatrous custom of Ashdod, not to tread on the threshold of the temple of Dagon. It had indeed been a strange infatuation of idolatry, that God‘s people should adopt an act of superstitious reverence for an idol in the very instance in which its nothingness and the power of the true God had been shown. Nothing is indeed too…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their neighbours' rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned with. They are secure and easy; they say in their heart, the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9all who leap over the threshold: The people of Judah continued the pagan custom of jumping over a temple's threshold to avoid touching it, out of respect for that pagan god (see 1 Samuel 5:1–5).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. those that leap on the threshold--the servants of the princes, who, after having gotten prey (like hounds) for their masters, leap exultingly on their masters' thresholds; or, on the thresholds of the houses which they break into [Calvin]. Jerome explains it of those who walk up the steps into the sanctuary with haughtiness. Rosenmuller translates, "Leap over the threshold"; namely, in imitation of the Philistine custom of not treading on the…Read the comment

Topics related to Zephaniah 1:9

• Dishonesty
• Servant
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In the dictionaries

• Crashing
• Wasteness
• Molech; Moloch
• Zephaniah, Book of

Commentaries on Zephaniah 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings