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

Was the word of the Lord guaranteed to Judah?

Zephaniah 1:1 (ESV)

1 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

By no means. The day would come when God’s people would search to find the word, to no avail. They would suffer a famine of the word of God (Amos 8:11–12). Absence of God’s word is in itself judgment (1 Samuel 28:15–16; Micah 3:6; Ezekiel 7:26). It is a burning fire that consumes the people (Jeremiah 5:14).1