Footnotes

1. Zechariah 9:1 Whereby he meaneth Syria.
2. Zechariah 9:1 God’s anger shall abide upon their chief city, and not spare so much as that.
3. Zechariah 9:1 When the Jews shall convert and repent, then God will destroy their enemies.
4. Zechariah 9:2 That is, by Damascus: meaning, that Hamath or Antioch should be under the same rod and plague.
5. Zechariah 9:2 He secretly showeth the cause of their destruction, because they deceived all others by their craft and subtlety, which they cloaked with this name of wisdom.
6. Zechariah 9:4 Though they of Tyre think themselves invincible by reason of the sea that compass them round about, yet they shall not escape God’s judgments.
7. Zechariah 9:6 Meaning, that all should be destroyed, save a very few, that should remain as strangers.
8. Zechariah 9:7 He promiseth to deliver the Jews when he shall take vengeance on their enemies for their cruelty and wrongs done to them.
9. Zechariah 9:7 As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so should Ekron and all the Philistines.
10. Zechariah 9:8 He showeth that God’s power only shall be sufficient to defend his Church against all adversaries be they never so cruel, or assemble their power never so often.
11. Zechariah 9:8 That is, God hath now seen the great injuries and afflictions wherewith they have been afflicted by their enemies.
12. Zechariah 9:9 That is, he hath righteousness and salvation in himself for the use and commodity of his Church.
13. Zechariah 9:9 Which declareth that they should not look for such a king as should be glorious in the eyes of man, but should be poor, and yet in himself have all power to deliver his: and this is meant of Christ, as Matt. 21:5.
14. Zechariah 9:10 No power of man or creature shall be able to let this kingdom of Christ, and he shall peaceably govern them by his word.
15. Zechariah 9:10 That is, from the red sea, to the sea, called Syriacum: and by these places which the Jews knew, he meant an infinite space and compass over the whole world.
16. Zechariah 9:10 That is, from Euphrates.
17. Zechariah 9:11 Meaning, Jerusalem, or the Church which is saved by the blood of Christ whereof the blood of the sacrifices was a figure, and is here called the covenant of the Church, because God made it with his Church: and left it with them for the love that he bare unto them.
18. Zechariah 9:11 God showeth that he will deliver his Church out of all dangers, seem they never so great.
19. Zechariah 9:12 That is, into the holy land where the city and the Temple are, where God will defend you.
20. Zechariah 9:12 Meaning the faithful, which seemed to be in danger of their enemies on every side, and yet lived in hope that God would restore them to liberty.
21. Zechariah 9:12 That is, double benefits and prosperity, in respect of that which your fathers enjoined from David’s time to the captivity.
22. Zechariah 9:13 I will make Judah and Ephraim, that is, my whole Church, victorious against all enemies, which he here meaneth by the Greecians.
23. Zechariah 9:15 He promiseth that the Jews shall destroy their enemies, and have abundance and excess of all things, as there is abundance on the altar when the sacrifice is offered: Which things are not to move them to intemperancy, but to sobriety, and a thankful remembrance of God’s great liberality.
24. Zechariah 9:16 The faithful shall be preserved, and reverenced of all, that the very enemies shall be compelled to esteem them: for God’s glory shall shine in them, as Josephus declareth of Alexander the great when he met Jadi the high Priest.