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The Catholic Study Bible A special version of the New American Bible, with a wealth of background information useful to Catholics.

Commentary on Zephaniah

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1, 5 :

The host of heaven: the stars, the worship of which was introduced into Judah by the Assyrians. Milcom: the god of the Ammonites; cf 1 Kgs 11, 5. 7. 33; 2 Kgs 23, 13 .

He has consecrated his guests: God has prepared those whom he has invited to share as soldiers in the booty, or as beast and bird scavengers of carrion, on the day of slaughter. Cf Jer 46, 10; Ez 39, 17 .

1, 9 :

Leap over the threshold: the reference is to a superstitious custom of the pagans, witnessed to at least in regard to the worship of Dagon (1 Sm 5, 5 ).

1, 10f :

The New Quarter … the Mortar: sections of Jerusalem (cf 2 Kgs 22, 14 ).

1, 12 :

The men who thicken on their lees: those who are overconfident because, like bottles of wine in which the sediment has settled to the bottom, they have remained at peace and undisturbed for a long time.

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