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Zechariah 8
A promise that Jerusalem shall be restored, ver. 1-8. That the
whole church shall be established and increased, ver. 9-23.
Verse 2. Jealousy - With great care that she should not, as formerly, sin
against my love, and her own welfare, and with a great desire to
do her good, and to rescue her from her enemies. Fury - With heat
of anger against her enemies.
Verse 3. Shall be called a city of truth - Her citizens shall love the truth
and speak it, shall worship me in truth of heart, as well as in the
true manner prescribed to them.
Verse 4. Old men - Formerly war, or famine or pestilence, and wasting
diseases, cut off men and women before they came to old age.
Verse 6. marvelous - These things may seem strange to this people.
Verse 7. The east-country - Persia and Media, which lay east from
Jerusalem, and were now masters of Babylon.
Verse 8. In truth and in righteousness - This signifies both God's part,
and their part; on God's part truth, on their's righteousness,
obedience to God's righteous law.
Verse 9. The prophets - Haggai and Zechariah.
Verse 10. Before these days - For eighteen years together. No hire - No
profit by the labour of man or beast, no sowing or planting.
Affliction - Distress, and want, through the barrenness, which
attended all their labour.
Verse 11. I will not be - That is, I will not deal with them as in former
days.
Verse 14. I repented not - I did not fail to do it.
Verse 15. So - So with like steadiness of mind I have purposed to do
well to you.
Verse 16. Judgment of truth - True judgment. Peace - That may restore,
and settle peace among you. Gates - The places of judicature,
where the Judges sat.
Verse 19. Thus saith the Lord - This verse is a final decision of the case:
provided they do these things required, ver. 16, 17, then shall the
fasting cease, and turn into joyful feasts. The fourth month -
Wherein the city was taken by the Babylonians. The fifth - In
which the temple was burnt. The seventh - Wherein Gedaliah was
killed. The tenth - On the tenth day whereof the king of Babylon's
army sat down before the city.
Verse 20. People - Multitudes.
Verse 21. I will go also - The invited, shall with as much zeal embrace
the motion, as others made it.
Verse 22. In Jerusalem - Literally understood, you have the first fruits of
them mentioned, Acts ii, 10-12. Mystically, Jerusalem is the
church of Christ. To pray - To perform all gospel-worship.
Verse 23. Ten men - That is, many men. All languages - No nation is
any longer excluded. A Jew - To whom the gospel was first
preached. We have heard - And now see, and are assured. That
God - The true God, the only true God, whom to know is life
eternal.
Chapter 8:
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