Week 17 - Jehovah Hides

Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, 1:1. In fact, his ancestry is listed to four generations previous. He was the great-great grandson of Hezekiah, the very good king of Judah in the waning days of the eighth century B.C. Being of the royal line of descendants, he most likely lived in Jerusalem. Reading through the book, he appears to be very familiar with the moral and ethical morass the city found itself in. We know nothing of Zephaniah’s occupation.