Zephaniah
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
door:...
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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
door:...
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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people
that [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah
the priest, and to all the priests, saying,...
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Zephaniah or Tzfanya (Hebrew: צְפַנְיָה, Modern Tsfanya Tiberian
Ṣəp̄anyā ; "Concealed of/is Lord") is the name of several
people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. He is
also called Sophonias as in the New Catholic Encyclopaedia and
in Easton's [Bible] Dictionary. The name might mean "Yah(weh)
has concealed", "[he whom] Yah(weh) ha...
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zef-a-ni'-a (tsephanyah, tsephanyahu, "Yah hath treasured"):
(1) The prophet.
See ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF.
(2) A Levite or priest (1 Ch 6:36 (Hebrew 6:21)), called in
some genealogies "Uriel" (1 Ch 6:24; 15:5,11).
(3) Judean father or fathers of various contemporaries of
Zechariah, the prophet (Zec 6:10,14).
(4) A priest, the second in rank in the day...
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-1. A priest in the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah
Sent by the king to Jeremiah with a message soliciting the
prophet's intercession and prayers
Jer 21:1,2
Shows Jeremiah the false prophet's letter
Jer 29:25-29
Taken to Riblah and killed
2Ki 25:18-21; Jer 52:24-27
-2. A Kohathite
1Ch 6:36
-3. A prophet in the days of Josiah
Zep 1:1
-4...
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(hidden by Jehovah).
1. The ninth in order of the twelve minor prophets.
His pedigree is traced to his fourth ancestor, Hezekiah, Zep
1:1 supposed to be the celebrated king of that name. The
chief characteristics of this book are the unity and harmony
of the composition, the grace, energy and dignity of its
style, and the rapid and effective ...
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Jehovah has concealed, or Jehovah of darkness. (1.) The son
of
Cushi, and great-grandson of Hezekiah, and the ninth
in the
order of the minor prophets. He prophesied in the
days of
Josiah, king of Judah (B.C. 641-610), and was
contemporary with
Jeremiah, with whom he had much in common. The book
of his
prophecies consists of:
(a) An intr...
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("Jehovah hath hidden") (Psalm 27:5; Psalm 83:3).
1. Ninth of the minor prophets; "in the days of
Josiah," between 642 and 611 B.C. "Son of Cushi, the son of
Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah." The
specification of his father, grandfather, and great
grandfather, implies he was sprung from men of note. The
omission of the desig...
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