if my wife, Elizabeth, has not been with me. There’s no place like home! In this last section of Zephaniah (3:14–20) the prophet paints a wonderful picture of God gathering his scattered remnant and bringing them home. At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home … when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes (20). It is possible that Zephaniah is anticipating the return from exile seventy years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC? Yet the way in which Zephaniah
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