Zephaniah's Prophecies

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  1. Tzefaniah 1-3

    Matan Al Haperek

    Rabbi David Sabato

    Sefer Tzefaniah opens with a description of the complete destruction which will come to the land (1-3). Immediately after the opening pesukim there is a list of the sins of Judah (4-9) and a description of the sounds of crying and wailing which will be heard from Jerusalem (10-13). The perek ends with a description of the day of the Lord (14-18). The perek wavers between descriptions of world destruction and descriptions of the national sins and destruction.

    At the beginning of perek 2, Tzefaniah calls to Judah to repent (1-3), and then he goes from nation to nation and kingdom to kingdom: he foresees the desolation of the land of the Philistines (4-7), Moab and Ammon (8-11) and the Kushites (12). The perek ends with a prophecy about the destruction of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria (13-15).

    In perek 3 the prophet goes back and forth between prophecies about Israel and prophecies about the nations. At the beginning of the perek Tzefaniah details the distorted moral situation of the “dove-like city” ha’ir hayonah (1-4), which apparently alludes to Jerusalem, and its judgment (5-7). After this there is a description of the judgment of the nations and their repentance in the future (8-10), and then he returns to the repentance of Jerusalem and the remnant which will (11-13) be left in it. The perek ends with a prophecy of consolation for Jerusalem (14-20). 

  2. Sefer Zephania: Archaeology

    Nachliel Selavan | 22 minutes

    Zephania is book #9 of the Trei Assar, and deals with the destruction of the region by Babylon. It is unique in tying together the destruction of the Temple and Yehuda together with the surrounding nations which were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.

    It is the last book in Trei Assar dealing with the Babylonan period, and the next and last three deal with the Persian period.

     

    Archaeology Snapshot is a discussion on the location, timeline, main characters and highlights from history and archaeology, for each Sefer in Tanach.