Zephaniah 2:1

The prophet urgently calls the shameless nation to gather itself together. It matters because it summons a complacent people to assemble for repentance before judgment falls.

Cross-references · 14

• Joel 1:14Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.
• 2 Chr 20:4Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.
• Neh 8:1All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
• Esth 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
• Neh 9:1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
• Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead. You refused to be ashamed.
• Jer 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down,” says Yahweh.
• Matt 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
• Isa 1:4–6Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
• Isa 1:10–15Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• Jer 12:7–9“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
• Joel 2:12–18“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

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