Zephaniah Chapter 1 verse 16 Holy Bible
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
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A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.
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a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fenced cities and against the high battlements.
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A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
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a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
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A day of trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities, And against the high corners.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - A day of the trumpet and alarm. "Alarm" means "the sound of alarm." Among the Jews trumpets were used to announce the festivals (Numbers 29:1), and to give the signal for battle or of the approach of an enemy (Jeremiah 4:5, 19; Ezekiel 33:4). Here it is the signal of destruction (Amos 2:2). The fenced cities. The strongest fortresses shall feel the irresistible attack (Micah 5:11). The high towers. These are the turrets built at the angles of the walls for the better defence of the city, and to annoy the besiegers (Zephaniah 3:6). LXX., ἐπὶ τὰς γωνίας τὰς ὑψηλάς, "upon the lofty angles;" Vulgate, super angulos excelsos. Others take the words to mean "the battlements" on the walls. Henderson quotes Taeitus's description of the later walls of Jerusalem, "Duos colles immensum editos claudebant muri per artem obliqui aut introrsus sinuati, ut latera oppugnantium ad ictus patescerent" ('Hist.,' 5:11).
