Charles Ellicott Commentary Zechariah 8
Charles Ellicott Commentary
Zechariah 8
Charles Ellicott Commentary
Zechariah 8
"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath." — Zechariah 8:2 (ASV)
I was. —Better, I am in both cases. Here God declares His determination to give expression to His burning love for Zion.
"Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain." — Zechariah 8:3 (ASV)
Compare to Zechariah 2:10-13.
Of truth — that is, where truth and fidelity towards God have their home , the faithful city. (For the other two titles, see Isaiah 2:2-3; Jeremiah 31:23.) Zion shall return to her former condition of faithfulness, and consequent favour with God. (Compare to Zechariah 8:8.)
"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." — Zechariah 8:4-5 (ASV)
This promise may well be regarded as having been fulfilled to the letter in the days of Simon the Maccabee , when the ancient men sat in all the streets ... and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel, and every man sat under his vine and his fig-tree, and there was none to fray them.
"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts." — Zechariah 8:6 (ASV)
If it be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days. —Better, though it was marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, was it, therefore [or will it, therefore, be] marvelous in My eyes? (Compare to “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible”—Matthew 19:26.)
"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;" — Zechariah 8:7 (ASV)
From the east ... and from the west. —There were Jews in exile in the west as well as in the east (Joel 3:6); and, indeed, a very general dispersion may be almost implied from Isaiah 43:5-6.
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