Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zechariah 2:10
I come — To execute judgments on thine adversaries, and to compleat thy deliverance and salvation. I will dwell — This was fulfilled in part to the Jews, but more fully to the gospel church.
I come — To execute judgments on thine adversaries, and to compleat thy deliverance and salvation. I will dwell — This was fulfilled in part to the Jews, but more fully to the gospel church.
Verse Zechariah 2:10. _I WILL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEE, SAITH THE LORD_] This must chiefly refer to the _Christian church_, in which God ever dwells by the power of his Spirit, as he _had_ done by t...
SING AND REJOICE, O DAUGHTER OF ZION - It is a great jubilee of joy, to which Zion is invited. Thrice beside is she invited with this same word, and all for the restored or renewed Presence of God. “C...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The man with the measuring line (Zechariah 2:1) _ 2. The message of the third night vision (Zechariah 2:3) 3. The glorious kingdom (Zechariah 2:10)...
A COLLECTION OF FRAGMENTS. Zechariah 2:6 f. bids the Jews scattered through the Persian empire escape to Jerusalem, where they will be safe when the judgment comes upon Persia. The north in Jeremiah's...
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. I WILL DWELL, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Ex. Zec 29:45, Zec 29:46. Leviticus 26:11; Leviticus 26:12). App-92....
_I will dwell in the midst of thee_ This prophecy had a fulfilment, when the Temple was rebuilt and the worship of God was resumed on Mount Zion. But it had a higher fulfilment when "the Word was made...
That they may share in the promised favour to Zion, but also (and this is put first and urgently, because the judgment was imminent) that they may escape the coming punishment of Babylon, the Jews sti...
_ZECHARIAH 2:10_.— Hitherto nothing has appeared to indicate the angel to be more than what the name usually imports, an ordinary messenger of God's will, and the agent of his providence. Nor will it,...
CHAPTER XXIX A VISION OF A MEASURING LINE ZECHARIAH, CHAPTER Zechariah 2:1-13 RV. And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said, I, Whither goes...
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. SING AND REJOICE, O DAUGHTER OF ZION: FOR, LO, I COME, AND I WILL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF...
THE THIRD VISION 1-5. A young man with a measuring line goes forth to measure Jerusalem preparatory to rebuilding the walls. But an angel is sent to stop him. The population will so increase as to ex...
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in Zechariah 1:7 to...
(6-13) This address to Zion may be taken as the words of the prophet himself, or of the angel who had been speaking before. In any case, it was intended to be communicated to the people by the prophet...
I WILL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEE. — These words (comp. Zechariah 8:3) were, no doubt, meant by the prophet to refer, in the first place, to God’s indwelling in the second Temple (see Note on Haggai 2...
(10-13) The prophecy contained in these verses is admitted by most Jewish as well as Christian commentators to be of a Messianic character; but opinion is not so unanimous with regard to the nature of...
_[Zechariah 2:14]_ רָנִּ֥י וְ שִׂמְחִ֖י בַּת ־צִיֹּ֑ון...
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
THE REDEMPTION OF JERUSALEM Zechariah 1:18-21; Zechariah 2:1-13 The work of Temple-building had ceased for fifteen years and the new resolve to arise and build might meet with a similar fate. But the...
The vision of the measuring line reveals the condition of Jerusalem which will result from the overthrow of her enemies. The young man with a measuring line goes forth to measure the restored city, an...
"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. (11) And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: an...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
He continues the same subject. The meaning is, that God begins nothing which he does not determine to bring to its end. Since then he had already begun to gather his people, that they might dwell in t...
From chapter 2 to the end of chapter 6, the Spirit presents the circumstances, the principles, and the result of the re-establishment of Jerusalem and of the house; and also the judgment of that which...
SING AND REJOICE, O DAUGHTER OF ZION,.... Or, "congregation of Zion", as the Targum paraphrases it; the Jewish church, great numbers of that people being converted, and in a church state; or the whole...
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. Ver. 10. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come] After a long absence, as...
_Sing and rejoice_, &c. Here the prophet calls the daughter of Zion, or the whole Jewish nation, being redeemed and restored, to rejoice in the goodness showed them, and to proclaim the praises of Him...
VISION OF THE MAN WITH THE MEASURING-LINE. The second vision had pictured the overthrow of the enemies of the people of the Lord. But this defeat being administered, the growth of the Lord's Church w...
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, the Church of Jehovah, especially in the New Testament; FOR, LO, I COME, the Messiah Himself addressing those who were longing for His coming, AND I WILL DWELL IN...
THE THIRD VISION - A MAN WITH A MEASURING LINE (vv. 1-5) Another vision draws the eyes of Zechariah-a man with a measuring line. Zechariah 1:16 told of a line being stretched upon Jerusalem. Now, in...
10-13 Here is a prediction of the coming of Christ in human nature. Many nations in that day would renounce idolatry, and God will own those for his people who join him with purpose of heart. Gloriou...
SING AND REJOICE: now Christ calls them to rejoice in the goodness showed to them, and to sing forth the praises of him who showed it. O DAUGHTER OF ZION; the whole nation of the Jews, the peculiar, r...
Zechariah 2:10 Sing H7442 (H8798) rejoice H8055 (H8798) daughter H1323 Zion H6726 coming H935 (H8802) dwell...
THE THIRD VISION. THE MAN WITH THE MEASURING LINE (ZECHARIAH 2:1). Having learned that nothing has been happening among the nations which will aid in the recovery of YHWH's people (Zechariah 1:7), and...
Zechariah 2:1 I. In this vision God presented to the prophet, and through him to the nation at large, the prospect and the assurance of the restoration of Jerusalem, and the re-establishment of the Je...
CONTENTS: Visions of Zechariah. Jerusalem in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: Jerusalem is the apple of Jehovah's eye, jealously guarded by His angels and marked out for a gl...
Zechariah 2:1. _Behold, a man with a measuring line._ A young man, as in Zechariah 2:4; an angel in the form of a man, come to measure the streets, the wall, and temple of Jerusalem, as architects do...
_I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee _ THE RESTORER OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH Note that the name of “the Lord,” or “Jehovah,” is applied to two distinct persons; to Him who sends, and to Him who...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 2:1 In his third vision Zechariah anticipates a renewed Jerusalem, so full of people that it spreads beyond its walls. It will attract those Jews who remain in exile, as we...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 2:10 SING AND REJOICE. The Lord’s dramatic return to his rebuilt house is cause for praise for those who have returned to Judah (see Psalms 35:27
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 2:10.] Summons to rejoice over God’s indwelling, and its happy results. COME] at Messiah’s first advent, and more especially in his return in glory (Jeremiah 1:14, and Revel...
EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 2:1 § 5. _The third vision: the man with the measuring line._ ZECHARIAH 2:1 (Hebrews 2:5.) I LIFTED UP MINE EYES AGAIN ...
Chapter 2, the next vision, the fourth in the series of ten. I lifted up my eyes again, and I looked, and behold there was a man with a measuring line in his hand [He had a ruler]. I said, Where are y...
2 Corinthians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ezekiel 37:27; Isaiah 12:6;...
THE MAN AND THE MEASURING LINE Zechariah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the Book of Ezekiel, chapter 40, we have Ezekiel's vision which in some respects parallels the one in Zechariah. Ezekiel in the vis...