Zechariah 8:16

In your gates] The gate was the market-place where all business transactions took place: see Ruth 4:1. Execute the judgment of truth and peace] be fair-minded and peaceable.

20, 23. The gathering in of the nations was never adequately fulfilled in regard to Jerusalem or the Temple then approaching completion; but the prophecy foretells most strikingly the success of the kingdom of Christ. It was the dream of all Hebrew prophecy: cp. Micah 4:2; Isaiah 2:3.