Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Zechariah 9:4
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
the Lord*. One of 134 places where the Sopherim say they altered "Jehovah" to "Adonai". App-32 and compare App-4.
cast her out. dispossess her.
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
the Lord*. One of 134 places where the Sopherim say they altered "Jehovah" to "Adonai". App-32 and compare App-4.
cast her out. dispossess her.
Verse Zechariah 9:4. _WILL SMITE HER POWER IN THE SEA_] See Ezekiel 26:17. Though Alexander did take Tyre, Sidon, Gaza, c. yet it seems that the prediction relative to their destruction was fulfilled...
BEHOLD - Such were the preparations of Tyre. Over against them, as it were, the prophet sets before our eyes the counsels of God. Theodoret: “Since they had severed themselves from the providence of G...
II. THE TWO PROPHETIC BURDENS--THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF THE FUTURE I. The First Burden (9-11) CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The burden of the land of Hadrach (Zechariah 9:1) _ 2. Zion's King of Peace (Zechariah 9...
This paragraph, of which the beginning is mutilated and the text is otherwise corrupt, is written in verse, lines of three beats each, arranged in tristichs. This form of verse is unusual, the more co...
Zechariah 9:1-8. The punishment of Israel's enemies The first section opens with a prediction (Zechariah 9:1-8), from which the title of the whole of this first group of prophecies is derived, of the...
_cast her out_ Or, _dispossess her_, R. V. Lit. TAKE POSSESSION OF HER, i.e. by ejecting her and coming into her place. Comp. Exodus 34:24. Ewald renders less satisfactorily _will impoverish her_. _he...
WILL SMITE HER POWER IN THE SEA— The Sidonians, (according to Diodorus Siculus,) on the approach of the army sent against them by Ochus king of Persia, first of all destroyed their shipping at sea; an...
CHAPTER XXXVIII THE TRIUMPH OF ZION THROUGH HER MESSIAH JUDGEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL'S ENEMIES. Zechariah 9:1-8 RV. The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be its...
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. BEHOLD, THE LORD WILL CAST HER OUT - (Ezekiel 26:4; Ezekiel 26:12;...
JUDGMENTS ON THE NATIONS. THE PRINCE OF PEACE 1-8. A judgment is about to fall on Damascus, Hamath, Tyre, Sidon, and the cities of the Philistines. A remnant from Philistia will acknowledge God. God...
IN THE SEA] i.e destroy her commerce....
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 9 V1 What the *LORD says warns (about punishment) to the country of Hadrach. (The punishment) will start at Damascus. (This will ha...
הִנֵּ֤ה אֲדֹנָי֙ יֹֽורִשֶׁ֔נָּה וְ הִכָּ֥ה בַ †...
THE CONTENTS OF "ZECHARIAH" Chapter s 9-14 FROM the number of conflicting opinions which prevail upon the subject, we have seen how impossible it is to decide upon a scheme of division for "Zechariah...
1. THE COMING OF THE GREEKS Zechariah 9:1 This passage runs exactly in the style of the early prophets. It figures the progress of war from the north of Syria southwards by the valley of the Orontes...
THE NATIONS WILL SEEK THE GOD OF ISRAEL Zechariah 8:18-23; Zechariah 9:1-8 In his final answer the prophet gives a delightful picture of the future, which was on the eve of complete realization. So e...
Here begins the second division of the prophecy in which there are two messages. The first the prophet described as "the burden of the word of the Lord upon the land of Hadrach"; it deals with the rej...
Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her (f) power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. (f) Though those of Tyre think themselves invincible by reason of the sea that sur...
And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus and Zidon, though it be very wise. 3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and line gold as the mire of the streets....
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 now declares that God would be an avenger. Behold, he says, _Jehovah will possess_, or cause to possess, as some read, but they are mistaken, owing to the two meanings of the verb ירש, _iresh_, whi...
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...
BEHOLD, THE LORD WILL CAST HER OUT,.... Or "inherit her" f, or "them", as the Septuagint render the words; when, being converted, she would become the Lord's inheritance and possession, and her riches...
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. Ver. 4. _Behold, the Lord will cast her out_] Or, impoverish her, as some render it; t...
_And Hamath also shall border there by_ Or, Hamath also shall be within its borders. That is, the borders of this prophecy. Hamath shall be involved in the calamities which this prophecy denounces. “I...
JUDGMENT UPON THE LAND OF HADRACH...
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, seizing her through the agency of some earthly conqueror, in this case Alexander, AND HE WILL SMITE HER POWER IN THE SEA, as represented by her army and her navy; A...
SYRIA, TYRE AND PHILISTIA TO FALL UNDER JUDGMENT (vv. 1-8) Beginning with this chapter the book of Zechariah has a distinctly different character. No dates are mentioned as in the first section of t...
1-8 Here are judgements foretold on several nations. While the Macedonians and Alexander's successors were in warfare in these countries, the Lord promised to protect his people. God's house lies in...
BEHOLD; observe it, for I tell you truth; though strange, it will be so. THE LORD WILL CAST HER OUT; the Lord will do this, he will eject and cast her out of her inheritance, as the word in the Hebrew...
Zechariah 9:4 Lord H136 out H3423 (H8686) destroy H5221 (H8689) power H2428 sea H3220 devoured H398 ...
GOD DECLARES JUDGMENT ON THE SURROUNDING NATIONS AND SECURITY TO HIS PEOPLE (ZECHARIAH 9:1). The section begins by indicating that all are watching for what YHWH will do, and that those who pride them...
Zechariah 9:1. _The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach,_ Or, Syria, Zechariah 9:1. _And Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, s...
As we read these ancient prophecies, we will not only notice how exactly they have been fulfilled, but we will also try to learn the lesson that they are intended to teach us. Zechariah 9:1. The burd...
CONTENTS: Burden upon the cities surrounding Palestine. Christ presented as King-Savior in His first advent. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ, Israel's King, who came as the meek and lowl...
Zechariah 9:1. _The burden of Hadrach and Damascus._ Hadrach, the old name of Hazor, the Hebrews being accustomed to adhere to primitive names of cities and nations. Judges 4:2; Jeremiah 49:28. This k...
_The burden of the Word of the Lord _ The dark and bright side of God ’s revelation to mankind I. The dark side of the Divine Word. Notice two things-- 1. In this aspect it is here called a “burden...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 9:1 The Return of the King. The reference to the surrounding nations in Zechariah 8:20 and...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HADRACH] Part of Syria, near Damascus. REST] On which God’s wrath shall rest, and permanently abide. EYES] of Israel, and of other people, would mark the providence of God; or, “Jehov...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-14:21 Part III. THE FUTURE OF THE POWERS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. VERSE 1-11:17 A. THE FIRST...
Now the burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, and all of the tribes of Israel shall be toward the LORD. And Hamath also s...
Amos 1:10; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:26; Ezekiel 28:16; Ezekiel 28:
Cast her out — Of her inheritance, as the word properly means....