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

7Be quiet! The Lord God is here. It will soon be the day of the Lord. The Lord has made his sacrifice ready. He has made the people ready who will give the sacrifice to him.’ 8‘When it is time for the Lord's sacrifice, I will punish the rulers and the king's sons. I will punish everyone who wears clothes like foreign people do.’ ‘I will also punish the people who rush into other people's houses. They do that because they want to rob those people. On that same day, I will also punish other robbers. Those people fill their masters' houses with the things that they take.’ 10The Lord says, ‘On that day you will hear the noise of people who are shouting from one gate of the city. It is the gate called the Fish Gate. And there will be sad sounds from the next gate. There will be loud noises from the hills. 11Shout out, you who live near Jerusalem's market! Weep! The Lord will remove the traders from your town. Some people have lots of money there. But all those people will be dead then.’

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 5:5Because of that, even today Dagon's priests and other people never walk on the step of Dagon's temple in Ashdod.
• 1 Samuel 2:15Their servant would even come before the fat was removed from the meat to be burned as a sacrifice. He would say to the person who had brought the sacrifice, ‘Give me some of the meat for the priest to bake. He will not accept meat that has already boiled. He will only accept meat that is fresh.’
• 2 Kings 5:20Elisha's servant, Gehazi, thought, ‘My master did not accept the gifts that Naaman offered to him. He made it too easy for that Syrian man. As surely as the Lord lives, I will run after him. I will accept a gift from him.’
• Nehemiah 5:15The officers who ruled there before I came made much trouble for the people. They took food and wine from the people, as well as 40 silver coins every day. Their servants also gave the people much trouble. But I did not live like them, because I wanted to please God.
• Proverbs 29:12When a ruler listens to lies, all his officers will be wicked.
• Acts 16:19Her masters now knew that the girl could not get money for them any more. So they took hold of Paul and Silas and they pulled them to the market place of the city. They took them to stand in front of the leaders of the city.

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