Zechariah 9:1-8
1599 Geneva Bible
9 The threatenings of the Gentiles. 9 The coming of Christ.
1 The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of [a]Hadrach: and Damascus shall be his [b]rest: when the [c]eyes of man, even of all the tribes of Israel shall be toward the Lord.
2 And Hamath also shall border [d]thereby: Tyre also and Sidon, though they be [e]very wise.
3 For Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and gold as the mire of the streets.
4 Behold, the Lord will spoil her, and he will smite her [f]power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, and Gaza also shall be very sorrowful, and Ekron: for her countenance shall be ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
6 And the [g]stranger shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his [h]teeth: but he that remaineth, even he shall be for our God, and he shall be as a prince in Judah, but [i]Ekron shall be as a Jebusite.
8 And I will camp about [j]mine House against the army, against him that passeth by, and against him that returneth, and no oppressor shall come upon them anymore: for now [k]have I seen with mine eyes.
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- Zechariah 9:1 Whereby he meaneth Syria.
- Zechariah 9:1 God’s anger shall abide upon their chief city, and not spare so much as that.
- Zechariah 9:1 When the Jews shall convert and repent, then God will destroy their enemies.
- Zechariah 9:2 That is, by Damascus: meaning, that Hamath or Antioch should be under the same rod and plague.
- 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.
- 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.
- Zechariah 9:6 Meaning, that all should be destroyed, save a very few, that should remain as strangers.
- 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.
- Zechariah 9:7 As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so should Ekron and all the Philistines.
- 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.
- Zechariah 9:8 That is, God hath now seen the great injuries and afflictions wherewith they have been afflicted by their enemies.
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