Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Zechariah 2:7
Dwellest with the daughter of Babylon - The unusual idiom is perhaps chosen as expressive of God’s tenderness, even to the people who were to be destroyed, from which Israel was to escape.
Dwellest with the daughter of Babylon - The unusual idiom is perhaps chosen as expressive of God’s tenderness, even to the people who were to be destroyed, from which Israel was to escape.
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...
DELIVER. Hebrew Ho! RESCUE, &c., as in Zechariah 2:6...
_Deliver thyself_ Lit. " HO, ZION, DELIVER THYSELF: THOU THAT DWELLEST WITH, &c." The reason for this urgent call to escape, viz. the impending judgment upon Babylon, follows immediately, Zechariah 2:...
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...
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...
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. DELIVER THYSELF, O ZION, THAT DWELLEST WITH THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON. Thou, whose only sure dwelling is "Zion," inseparably conne...
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...
DELIVER THYSELF, O ZION] better, 'Ho, escape to Zion.'...
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...
DAUGHTER OF BABYLON means _inhabitants of Babylon,_ as (Zechariah 2:10) “daughter of Zion” means _inhabitants of Zion._ (With the whole passage comp. Isaiah 48:20; Jeremiah 51:6;...
_[Zechariah 2:11]_ הֹ֥וי צִיֹּ֖ון הִמָּלְטִ֑י יֹושֶׁ֖בֶת בַּת
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...
(h) Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon. (h) By fleeing from Babylon, and coming to the Church....
"Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. (7) Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with...
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...
The Prophet repeats the same thing, though briefly, and in other words: but while he briefly touches on what he meant to say, he confirms and renders more plain the contents of the former verse. He sh...
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...
DELIVER THYSELF, O ZION,.... Or make thy escape, you that belong to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, and ought to have your abode there, and not in Babylon: flee from thence, THAT DWELLETH [WI...
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon. Ver. 7. _Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon_] _q.d._ Is Babylon a fit place for thee to abide i...
_Ho, Ho!_ Ye sleepy Jews, _come forth_ Come out from your prisons; _and flee_ Make all the haste you can, _from the land of the north_ From Chaldea, and Babylon, the chief city of it, which lay northw...
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon, or, "Ho, Zion, save thyself!" the separation between the children of God and the children of the world being absolute, even if not...
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...
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...
6-9 If God will build Jerusalem for the people and their comfort, they must inhabit it for him and his glory. The promises and privileges with which God's people are blessed, should engage us to join...
DELIVER THYSELF: the proclamation for free return is published; up, then, and be gone. O ZION; O ye people who should dwell in Zion, ye daughters of Zion. DWELLEST; keepest in Babylon when thou mighte...
Zechariah 2:7 Up H1945 Zion H6726 Escape H4422 (H8734) dwell H3427 (H8802) daughter H1323 Babylon H894...
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...
_Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter Babylon _ SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD, THE DUTY AND PRIVILEGE OF A CHRISTIAN Zechariah prophesied at Jerusalem after the return of the Jews fr...
_I have spread you abroad, etc _ SOUL-EXILE This is a call of Jehovah to the Jews in Babylonian captivity to return to their own land. These words may illustrate the moral exile of humanity. The po...
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 2:6 FLEE FROM THE LAND OF THE NORTH. God’s glory will return to Jerusalem and his judgment will fall on their former rulers (Zechariah 1
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 2:6. NORTH] Babylon, north of Jerusalem; an address to such Jews as still remained there, through infirmity, ties of property, &c. The urgency of the call denoted by repeti...
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...
Acts 2:40; Genesis 19:17; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 52:11; Isaiah 52:2;...
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...
Deliver thyself — Accept of thy deliverance....