Charles Ellicott Commentary Zechariah 8:4-5

"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.