1. Zephaniah 2:13 (ESV)
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Who is “he”?

Zephaniah 2:13 (ESV)

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

He” refers to the Lord even though the last direct reference to God came in Zephaniah 2:11.

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