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n. - An Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah; A Hebrew minor poet of the late 7th century BC.

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  • Josias, the son of Sophonias, who came out of Babylon.
  • Hem, the son of Sophonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord.
  • The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias sent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of
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