Zephaniah 3:14-20

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What can we learn from the historical context?

Zephaniah’s Context

The book of Zephaniah was likely written in the late 7th century, BC. In the southern kingdom of Judah, Josiah was king from 640-609. [1] The first prophetic voice since Isaiah in the late 8th century, Zephaniah was likely written during Josiah’s reign. In this view, the first two chapters of the book would have been written earlier in Josiah’s reign, before Josiah led an attempt to reform Judah with the third chapter written toward the end of Josiah’s reign, after his reforms had…