스가랴 9:13 KRV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 9:13-16

Zechariah 9:13-16. When I have bent Judah for me “A strong and sublime manner of expressing that God would use Judah and Ephraim as his instruments of destruction.” Newcome. As if he had said, When I have made Judah my bow, and Ephraim my arrow, have used them as my instruments of war. Judah and Ephraim are equivalent to Judah and Israel. The men of Ephraim being expert archers, the expression of filling the bow with Ephraim, seems to allude to that circumstance. And raised up thy... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zechariah 9:1-17

9:1-14:21 THE TRIUMPH OF THE MESSIAHIsrael always looked forward to a messianic day of glory and power. The people longed for the day when all enemies would be destroyed, and righteousness would be established in the land under the rule of the Messiah. The nation’s re-establishment under Zerubbabel and Joshua was a foretaste of that great day. Israel could expect to see its former enemies conquered and full independence restored in its land.This in fact happened. The years 334-326 BC saw the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zechariah 9:13

filled = grasped. thy sons, O Greece. Septuagint reads "the sons of Greece. Greece. Hebrew. Yavan . Compare Genesis 10:2 , Genesis 10:4 .Isaiah 66:19 . Ezekiel 27:13 .Daniel 8:21 ; Daniel 11:2 .Joel 3:6 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 9:13

"For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.""Judah ... Ephraim ..." The use of these words that stand for the pre-exilic kingdoms of northern and southern Israel should not be understood as a promise of God that the old secular states of Israel would again appear and be reunited under a Davidic ruler. Such a gross misunderstanding is refuted by everything in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 9:13

Zechariah 9:13. Greece— That Javan, or Ion (for the Hebrew word יון may be sounded either way, accordingly as it is differently pointed) means Greece, anciently Ionia, having its name from Javan, or Ion, the son of Japhet, and grandson of Noah, is sufficiently made appear in Bochart. Geograph. Sacra, lib. iii. c. 3. And by the sons of Javan or Greece are most probably meant here the same enemies of Israel, whose destruction is foretold, Ezekiel 38:0; Ezekiel 39:0 under the names of Gog and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 9:13

13. bent Judah—made Judah as it were My bow, and "filled" it "with Ephraim," as My arrow, wherewith to overcome the successor of the Grecian Alexander, Antiochus Epiphanes (compare Notes, see on :-; :-; 1 Maccabees 1:62; 2:41-43), the oppressor of Judah. Having spoken ( :-) of Alexander's victories, after the parenthesis (Zechariah 9:9; Zechariah 9:10) as to Messiah the infinitely greater King coming, he passes to the victories which God would enable Judah to gain over Alexander's successor,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 9:11-17

The deliverance and blessing of Zion’s people 9:11-17Before Messiah can reign in peace, He must destroy all enemies and deliver and restore His people (cf. Psalms 110). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 9:13-14

Yahweh, as the divine Warrior, would use Israel as a weapon to subdue the Gentiles. Judah would be His bow, and Ephraim would be His arrow. He was in complete command of Israel’s affairs. He would come against the nations like an army called to advance with a trumpet and like a strong southern storm (cf. Exodus 24:9-10; Exodus 24:15; Exodus 24:18). This verse saw initial, partial fulfillment when the Jews overthrew the Greeks during the Maccabean revolts in the second century B.C. But final,... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 9:1-17

Judgments on the Nations. The Prince of Peace1-8. A judgment is about to fall on Damascus, Hamath, Tyre, Sidon, and the cities of the Philistines. A remnant from Philistia will acknowledge God. God will encamp around His sanctuary. 9, 10. The coming of Messiah and His kingdom of peace. 11-17. Hope for Israel. God will enable her to contend successfully with Greece. He will aid and bless her.1. Burden] oracle, or prophecy: see Jeremiah 23:33-40. In the land] RV ’upon the land.’Hadrach] not... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zechariah 9:9-17

(9-17) The advent of the king. It has been urged as an objection against the post-exilic authorship of this passage that “Ephraim” and “Jerusalem” are mentioned, as though Israel were still separated from Judah. But, on the contrary, Ephraim and Jerusalem are here strictly parallel terms, as are also “Judah” and “Ephraim” (Zechariah 9:13), where both are represented as equally opposed to the sons of Javan. The nation was now one (Ezekiel 37:22) and known by the names of “Israel” (Zechariah... read more