In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
All Commentaries on Zephaniah 1:9 Go To Zephaniah 1
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Entereth the temple, as if to show themselves, Amos vi. 1. Hebrew, "jumpeth over", denoting the Philistines. (Chaldean) (1 Kings v. 5.) (Calmet)
Septuagint, "I will take vengeance on all openly before the gate in that day "(Haydock) on all who have cast themselves out of the Church. (St. Jerome)
Lord. Hebrew, of their masters with "This may relate to the Philistines, (Calmet) or to those who made the house of God a place of traffic, (Matthew xxi. 13.) and offered victims unjustly acquired. (Haydock)
