Zephaniah
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Intolerance in Zephaniah

  1. God will "cut off" all those who "have not sought the Lord" or who worship another god. 1:4-6

  2. God "will punish the princes, and the king's children, and 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. God will "bring distress upon men" so that they "walk like blind men." He will pour out their blood like dust and "their flesh as dung." 1:17

  5. God will kill all the inhabitants of the sea coast. 2:5

  6. God will destroy Moab and Ammon just like he did to Sodom and Gomorrah. 2:9

  7. "And men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." 2:11

  8. God will kill the Ethiopians with his own sword. 2:12