Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 2:13

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north , and destroy Assyria , and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness .

The Lord God of Israel, or the Chaldean Monarch as God's Servant herein.

Engage all his power, and use it to the utmost.

i. e. As follows Assyria, which lay Northward of Iudaea, but more due North from Babylon if I mistake n[illegible: 1 letter]t.

Overthrow that great and antient Kingdom of [illegible: 1 word], of which more at large in Na[illegible: 1 letter]um tot.

Chief City of that Kingdom. Vid. Nah. 1.1.

Most desolate, [illegible: 1 span]

Will turn those well-watered places into dry, thirsty and barren land as a wilderness.

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