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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Zephaniah 2:15

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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2:15 utter ruin: The doom was so certain and irreversible (see Nah 1:14; 2:13; 3:19) that Zephaniah saw no future for Assyria or its capital. So complete was Nineveh’s devastation that the Greek historian Xenophon once passed by its ruins unaware that it was there. • laugh . . . shake a defiant fist: Those who suffered under Assyria’s cruel empire would be glad seeing its demise.
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