Zephaniah 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.

Cross References

Psalm 91:6

or the pestilence that stalks in darkness or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.

Jeremiah 25:20

all the mixed people; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Jeremiah 6:4

“Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!” “Woe to us, for the day declines; the shadows of evening lengthen!”