Zechariah 14:1
The day — Of vengeance, Joel 2:1, cometh, or will soon overtake you, O sinful, unthankful! bloody! Jews. Thy spoil — All thou hast, O, Jerusalem, shall become a prey to thine enemy.... [ Continue Reading ]
The day — Of vengeance, Joel 2:1, cometh, or will soon overtake you, O sinful, unthankful! bloody! Jews. Thy spoil — All thou hast, O, Jerusalem, shall become a prey to thine enemy.... [ Continue Reading ]
All nations — The Romans who at that time had the rule over all the nations of that part of the world. The residue — That small number of the Jews who were spared by Titus. Shall not be cut off — Were not forbidden to dwell about the city.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then — After he hath sufficiently punished the Jews. As when he fought — As in those days when he fought for his people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall cleave — Sinai melted, at the presence of the God of the whole earth. Great valley — So rich shall be a plain access from the place of the feet of the Lord unto Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
The valley of the mountains — A place provided of God for their safety. O Lord my God — As if it were said, though it will, O Lord, put us into fear; yet without such wonderful works we shall not see thy salvation; therefore, O Lord my God come, and bring thy holy ones with thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
In that day — While God is fighting with the enemies of his church, the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Nor dark — There shall be some mercy to allay the bitterness of judgment, and some judgment with our mercy.... [ Continue Reading ]
One day — One continued day, no setting of the sun to make it quite night: God will always act in order to the full salvation of his spiritual Jerusalem. Known unto the Lord — The Lord knows when it shall begin, and how, and when it shall end.... [ Continue Reading ]
In that day — When the days of ignorance, and idolatry shall end. Living waters — The quickening, saving truths of the gospel, with all its ordinances in purity. From Jerusalem — The church of Christ, the true Jerusalem. The former sea — Or eastern sea. The hinder sea — Or western sea. In summer and... [ Continue Reading ]
In that day — All men shall agree in worshipping one God, in one way of spiritual worship, and hearty obedience.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the land — The whole land of Judea, a type of the whole earth, shall be filled with the knowledge of God. As a plain — All high, uneven places, all rocky and barren grounds, shall be changed into fruitful vineyards. So the church of Christ shall be fruitful, humble and lovely. Geba — The north b... [ Continue Reading ]
And men — Many for number, eminent for worth. Utter destruction — There may be afflictions but no utter wasting of Jerusalem; the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.... [ Continue Reading ]
A great tumult — Confusion. Shall rise up — From murmurs one against another they shall at last run into civil wars, and so destroy themselves, and revenge Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judah — The Jews, and possibly Judas Maccabeus might be intended.... [ Continue Reading ]
The horse — Those creatures which the enemy in the wars made use of, shall by the hand of God be suddenly and strangely destroyed.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is left — That escapes the stroke. To worship — By a ceremonial usage which shadowed out a better worship, the prophet foretells the constant zeal of the converted Gentiles to worship the Lord. The feast of tabernacles — One solemn festival is by a figure, put for all the days consecrated to Go... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall there be — Written as it were on every common thing. Holiness unto the Lord — Their persons shall bear the dedicating inscription of holiness to the Lord, and by their study of holiness they shall make good their motto. The pots — Which were used in the kitchens of the temple, and were not acc... [ Continue Reading ]
Every pot — The utensils of private houses shall be all dedicated to God's service. That sacrifice — So the prophet expresses all religious affections, practice, and worship, which shall be as pleasing to God, as were the sacrifices of his people offered up with divine warrant and approbation. Seeth... [ Continue Reading ]