Zephaniah
Introduction

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Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Absurdities
Prophecy
Language
Contradictions
Women
Family Values
Interpretation
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Absurdities in Zephaniah

  1. "The day of the LORD is at hand." 1:7

  2. God "will punish ... all such as are clothed with strange apparel" or "leap on the threshold." 1:8-9

  3. God doesn't have night-vision, so he needs candles when he comes to punish the people that say, "The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil." 1:12

  4. "The great day of the LORD is near." 1:14

  5. "The cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it."
    A prophecy for birdwathers. 2:14

  6. "Every one that passeth by her [Assyria] shall hiss, and wag his hand." 2:15

  7. The Singing God: "God will joy over thee with singing." 3:17