What does Zechariah 12:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of tremblinga unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem."
Verse Zechariah 12:2. _JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING_] The Babylonians, who captivated and ruined the Jews, shall in their turn be ruined. I incline to think that what is spoken in this chapter about...
I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING - For encouragement, He promises the victory, and at first mentions the attack incidentally. Jerusalem is as a cup or basin, which its enemies take into their...
II. THE SECOND BURDEN OF ZECHARIAH (12-14) CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Jerusalem's conflict and victory (Zechariah 12:1) _ 2. The vision of the pierced One and its results (Zechariah 12:10) Zechariah 12:1. The...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6. PEOPLE. peoples....
Zechariah 12:1-9. Jehovah's protection of His people As in the former Burden, the first section opens with a general Title (printed as such in R. V.), very similar to that of the First Burden (Zechar...
A CUP OF TREMBLING— That is, I will cause it to produce the same effect on the neighbouring nations as a cup of intoxicating liquors, which causes trembling, astonishment, and terror. See Bishop Lowth...
THE BURDEN OF THE LORD. Zechariah 12:1-2 RV. The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and for...
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TR...
THE DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM Many scholars believe that in Zechariah 12-14 (omitting Zechariah 13:7) we have a third separate prophecy, the oldest in the book of Zechariah, written subsequent to the d...
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 12 V1 The *LORD’s message warns (about danger) to Israel. The *LORD spreads out the skies. He lays a strong base for the earth. An...
The first part of this verse seems to imply that all who should attack Jerusalem would do so to their injury. The second part should perhaps be translated, _And also over Judah shall be_ (the tremblin...
הִנֵּ֣ה אָ֠נֹכִי שָׂ֣ם אֶת ־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם סַף ־רַ֛עַל לְ כָל ־הָ עַמִּ֖ים סָבִ֑יב וְ גַ֧ם...
8. JUDAH VERSUS JERUSALEM Zechariah 12:1 A title, though probably of later date than the text, introduces with the beginning of chapter 12 an oracle plainly from circumstances different from those of...
JERUSALEM'S DAY OF MOURNING Zechariah 12:1-14 This vision refers to a time yet future, when the Jews shall have returned to their own land, but still in unbelief; and will be assailed by their foes,...
The second message has to do with things wholly future. The King spoke of in the previous message, whose rejection was there foretold, is now seen coming into His kingdom. This the prophet described i...
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a (b) cup of trembling to all the people around, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. (b) Jerusalem will be defended against all h...
_A lintel of surfeiting. That is, a door into which they shall seek to enter, to glut themselves with blood: but they shall stumble, and fall like men stupified with wine. It seems to allude to the ti...
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 В¶ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a...
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...
Zechariah begins here to teach us what I have briefly explained, that Jerusalem would be under the protection of God, who would render it safe and secure against all enemies. But he uses here figurati...
The introduction of Antichrist, a shepherd [1] in Israel, brings in also the events that crowd around Jerusalem in the last days. All the nations should be gathered round Jerusalem, but only to find i...
BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE ROUND ABOUT,.... The Targum renders it, "a vessel full of inebriating liquor;'' which intoxicates and makes giddy, and causes to...
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. Ver. 2. _Behold, I will make Jerusalem a...
_Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling_ “An inebriating and stupifying potion of the strongest liquor and drugs. Jerusalem shall strike the nations with dread and astonishment.” _When they...
JEHOVAH'S SOLICITUDE FOR ISRAEL...
THE DELIVERANCE OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (vv. 1-9) In this chapter Judah is mentioned five times, Jerusalem ten times. All in this chapter (as well as Chapter s 13 and 14) is prophetic of the future...
TREMBLING: Or, slumber or poison WHEN THEY SHALL BE IN THE SEIGE BOTH AGAINST JUDAH AND AGAINST JERUSALEM: Or, and also against Judah shall he be which shall be in seige against Jerusalem...
1-8 Here is a Divine prediction, which will be a heavy burden to all the enemies of the church. But it is for Israel; for their comfort and benefit. It is promised that God will make foolish the couns...
I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM; that weak, unwalled, poor, and thinly inhabited city, type of the church; and much more the church, which is antitype to Jerusalem. A CUP OF TREMBLING; they shall drink their ow...
Zechariah 12:2 make H7760 (H8802) Jerusalem H3389 cup H5592 drunkenness H7478 surrounding H5439 peoples H5971 siege H4692 Judah H3063 Jerusalem H3389 a cup - Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22-2...
THE INITIAL FUTURE OF JERUSALEM (ZECHARIAH 12:1) Zechariah 12:1 ‘Thus says YHWH, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.' These wo...
Zechariah 12:1. _The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Be...
CONTENTS: Jerusalem's coming siege by the Beast and his armies. Deliverance of Judah by the Lord Himself. The Spirit poured out and the pierced one recognized. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Z...
Zechariah 12:1. _The burden of the word of the Lord._ It was indeed a burden to pass the sentence of heaven against the infidels of Asia, under the names of Gog, Magog, and Meshech; the infidels of Af...
_All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces _ SIN SELF-PUNISHMENT There is in this passage a principle by which the governor of the world punishes malicious men. That principle is th...
ZECHARIAH 12:1 The Second Oracle: The People and Their Leaders. In this last section of the book, hope for Judah is tied to the “house of David.” The future of Jerusalem is described in various ways,...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter begins the first half of the second prophecy concerning Israel’s future and the nations of the world. The conflict against Jerusalem and Judah will issue in the destructi...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-14:21 B. THE SECOND BURDEN. ZECHARIAH 12:1 § 1. The prophet proceeds to announce Israel's conflict with heathen powers. _Hostile nations gather together against Jerusalem, but s...
Now, we're out of the fog and into the clear day. Out of the haze and smog. Into the glorious pure age, as this final vision of Zechariah tells us about the glorious new age that God is going to estab...
Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Isaiah 51:23; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 25:17; Jeremiah 49:12; Jeremiah 51:57; Jeremiah 51:7;...
Jerusalem — That weak, unwalled city, and much more the church which is the antitype of Jerusalem. In the siege — Now when all this is in readiness, and no visible means of escape, then will God make...