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.
Zephaniah did not live in “the best of times; the worst of times.” Zephaniah simply lived in the worst of times.1
ephis is hard
1 Barker, K. L. (1999). Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (Vol. 20, p. 405). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
