Zephaniah 1:7-8

The Day of the Lord Is Near

7 m Be silent before the Lord God!
For n the day of the Lord is near;
o the Lord has prepared a sacrifice
and p consecrated his guests.
8 And on the day of the Lord's sacrifice -
q "I will punish the officials and the king's sons
and r all who array themselves in foreign attire.

  1. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:20
    But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.
  2. Cross References
    Zephaniah 1:14
    The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there.
    Joel 1:15
    Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:6
    The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
    Jeremiah 46:10
    That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
    Ezekiel 39:17
    As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God : Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.
    Ezekiel 39:19
    And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.
  4. Cross References
    1 Samuel 16:5
    And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
  5. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:12
    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign
    2 Kings 24:14
    He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
    2 Kings 25:7
    They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.
  6. Cross References
    Matthew 22:11
    But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
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