1. Zephaniah 3:6 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What are the “battlements” in view?

Zephaniah 3:6 (ESV)

6 “I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.

This could be a reference to the corner towers of the city, as was the case in Zephaniah 1:16. It is certainly a reference to the most strongly fortified points of their city walls.1 But they had become demolished.

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