For all these things do I hate - Literally, emphatic, “For they are all these things which I hate.” This is the sum of what I hate; for they comprise in brief the breaches of the two tables, the love of God and of man.
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The restoration announced (Zechariah 8:1) _ 2. The peace of Jerusalem (Zechariah 8:4) 3. The return to the land (Zechariah 8:6) 4. The blessing of the land and the people ...
ZECHARIAH 8:4 F. A beautiful description of the result of the restoration of peace and safety. During the troublous past Jerusalem had been no place for feeble old age or for children. The sympathetic...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra. '._ App-44 LOVE NO FALSE OATH. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 19:12). all these are things that. hate. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "all these...
"The ground upon which the promise rests is given in Zechariah 8:14-15, and it is closed in Zechariah 8:16-17, by the addition of the condition on which it is to be fulfilled." Keil....
AND LET NONE OF YOU IMAGINE EVIL— _And let none of you devise in your heart the hurt of his neighbour,_ &c. It is worthy of observation, that the prophet here not only condemns evil actions, but evil...
THE FIFTH STATEMENT. Zechariah 8:14-17 RV. For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I thought to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I repented not; so aga...
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: -The promised blessings are connected with obedience-God...
REITERATION OF GOD'S PROMISES CONCERNING JERUSALEM The whole chapter is made up of ten short oracles each introduced by the formula, 'Thus saith the Lord of hosts' (except Zechariah 8:3). God has com...
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 8 V1 Again, the word of the *LORD of Everything came (to Zechariah). (The *LORD told him) to say this. V2 ‘This is what the *LORD...
(14-17) As the Captivity had been brought about by God’s decree, so, too, the Restoration. The people, therefore, need not fear, if only they do that which is righteous in His sight....
וְ אִ֣ישׁ ׀ אֶת ־רָעַ֣ת רֵעֵ֗הוּ אַֽל ־תַּחְש
Zechariah 8:1 "THE SEED OF PEACE" Zechariah 7:1; Zechariah 8:1 THE Visions have revealed the removal of the guilt of the land, the restoration of Israel to their standing before God, the revival of...
TRUTH AND LOVE MUST PREVAIL Zechariah 8:1-17 In his third answer Zechariah dilates on the prosperity awaiting the chosen city. The Lord had returned, to dwell there, and the old men and women who wer...
The third answer was full of grace. It declared that God was jealous for Zion, that He had returned to it, and that therefore its prosperity was assured, notwithstanding that these people saw only the...
_Friend means every neighbour, or all mankind, Luke x. 27, 36. Even thoughts must be guarded. (Calmet)_...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts...
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 afterwards adds, _And think not evil every one against his friend_. Here the Prophet not only condemns open wrongs, but also the hidden purposes of evil. We hence learn, that the law was not only g...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, 9, AND 10. The prophecy, from chapter 7 to the end of the book, has for its special object the introduction of the Messiah in Israel, with the consequen...
AND LET NONE OF YOU IMAGINE EVIL IN YOUR HEARTS AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR,.... Zechariah 7:10 hatred without a cause was a governing vice under the second temple, and Jarchi says was the cause of the dest...
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD. Ver. 17. _And let none of you imagine evil in yo...
_These are the things that ye shall do_, &c. But these my promises of good to you are conditional, and the performance of them will depend upon your observing the laws of justice and righteousness; _S...
and let none of you imagine evil In your hearts against his neighbor, deliberately planning harm, AND LOVE NO FALSE OATH, for perjury makes the administration of justice impossible; FOR ALL THESE ARE...
THE RESTORATION DESCRIBED...
THE POSITIVE ANSWER (vv. 1-17) In this chapter the Lord gives a wonderfully positive answer to the question ofZechariah 7:2. The positive answer is found only in His own great and effective work to...
9-17 Those only who lay their hands to the plough of duty, shall have them strengthened with the promises of mercy: those who avoid their fathers' faults have the curse turned into a blessing. Those...
LET NONE OF YOU IMAGINE EVIL IN YOUR HEARTS AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR: see MALACHI 7:10. LOVE NO FALSE OATH: see MALACHI 5:4: you that must not lie to a man, must not swear to a lie before God, Psalms 15:...
Zechariah 8:17 none H376 think H2803 (H8799) evil H7451 heart H3824 neighbor H7453 love H157 (H8799) false...
THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE IS AT HAND (ZECHARIAH 8:9). God describes what the land had been like as a result of His forsaking it, but He wants them to know that He is now giving them another cha...
Zechariah 8:9. Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the month of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of th...
Zechariah 8:1. _Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury._ Because t...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's unchanging purpose to restore Jerusalem and bless Israel in the Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: Jerusalem, the city of God, and Israel, the people of God, have G...
Zechariah 8:2. _I was jealous for Zion with great fury,_ to purge her sins, and with great compassion and special mercy to bring back her children and restore her temple. What other nation, overrun an...
_Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour _ TRUTH Concisely stated, the doctrine of the text is, think truth, love truth, speak truth, and do truth--live in its atmosphere, make it your ruling...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 8:1 God is renewing his presence with his people. He is reaffirming his purpose to bless the nations through them. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 8:16.] Just as in ch. Zechariah 7:9, first positive (Zechariah 8:16), then negative (Zechariah 8:
EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 8:1 § 4. _The Lord promises to show his love for Zion, to dwell among his people, and to fill Jerusalem with a happy lace._ ZECHARIAH 8:1 AGAIN; rather, _and_. This chapter con...
Now again the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the LORD; I am re...
Habakkuk 1:13; Jeremiah 4:14; Jeremiah 4:2; Jeremiah 44:4; Malachi 3:5