Zephaniah 1:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

In the same day also will I punish all those who leap swiftly on or over the threshold [upon entering houses to steal], who fill their master's house with violence and deceit and fraud.

American Standard Version (1901)

And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Common English Bible

I will punish the one leaping on the threshold on that day, those filling the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I will visit upon all who enter arrogantly over the threshold in that day, those who fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

Zephaniah 1:9 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich;

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Zechariah 5:6

I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket coming out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in the whole land.”

Acts 16:19

But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

Judges 19:27

In the morning her master got up, opened the doors of the house, and when he went out to go on his way, there was the woman, his concubine, lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

1 Samuel 5:5

This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.