Zechariah 12

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 12:1-14

The Future of the House of David and the Dwellers in Jerusalem, the Servant Pierced, the Spirit Poured Out, The Superseding of Prophecy, the Fires of Refinement (Zechariah 12:1 to Zechariah 13:9 ). Zechariah’s experiences as previously described have brought home to him that the present time is not going to produce the hoped for golden age of God’s rule. The dream of the eight visions (Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15) which had promised so much of a purified Israel over whom would rule the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 12:10-14

The True and the False Prophets (Zechariah 12:10 - Zechariah 13:9 ). The way in which all this will take effect is now clearly laid out. A contrast is made between: · The piercing (rejection) of the True Prophet Who is coming when the Spirit is poured out, which will result in repentance and a fountain opened for sin and uncleanness (Zechariah 12:10 to Zechariah 13:1). · The piercing of false prophets because they are false (Zechariah 13:2-3). · The smiting of the false prophets by those who... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 12

The occurrence of a new heading, “ The burden of the word of the Lord,” which occurs again in Zechariah 12:1, and elsewhere only in Malachi 1:1, warns us that a new section begins here. We are no longer concerned with Joshua and Zerubbabel, the small community of Judah, and the hopes and aspirations of their time, but to a great extent with a larger Judaism which is in conflict with a world-power described as Greek, whose strongholds are not Babylon, but Damascus, Hamath, Tyre, and the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 12:1

Zechariah 12:1 a is an editorial heading probably added when the two collections Zechariah 9-11, Zechariah 12-14 were appended to the earlier book of Zechariah. The text of this section is corrupt in places, but the sense is on the whole clear. We have reference both to the earlier days of the struggle, when Jerusalem was in the hands of the Hellenisers and the heathen, while the Maccabees, who derived their forces from the country districts, were fighting against the Syro-Greek government,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 12

ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 12 Jerusalem a cup of trembling, and a burdensome stone, to the confusion of her adversaries, Zechariah 12:1-5. The victorious restoring of Judah, Zechariah 12:6-9. The repentance of Jerusalem, Zechariah 12:10-14. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the Lord: see this whole passage Zechariah 9:1. For Israel; or touching, concerning, as the Gallic version; upon, against, the Hebrew bears it; and some take it in one, some in the other sense, though I think the main of the chapter persuades it is to be rendered, for, in the behalf of Israel, i.e. the church of Christ among the Jews until their rejection, and among the Gentiles ever since their vocation; both have their concern in the things here foretold. Saith the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 12:2

I will make Jerusalem; that weak, unwalled, poor, and thinly inhabited city, type of the church; and much more the church, which is antitype to Jerusalem. A cup of trembling; they shall drink their own bane whose swords be drinking the blood of the inhabitants of this Jerusalem; there is poison mixed in the cup of the wrath of God, which he will put into the hands of such wicked ones, and they must drink it off. Unto all the people round about; to the heathen round about, to all of them; all... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 12:3

In that day; in the times of the heathens afflicting the church, from the repair of Jerusalem till Christ’s coming in the flesh, and in succeeding times since; but the day of the full accomplishment of this prophecy is a day known to the Lord. A burdensome stone; too heavy for them, though many join together to remove it. For all people; though all people of this known world should burden themselves with her. Shall be cut in pieces: they would be crushed to pieces, as a man that falls under a... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 12:4

In that day: see Zechariah 4:3. I will smite every horse: horses are of very great use in wars; they were the main strength of Antiochus Epiphanes, his best preparations. With astonishment; a dull, sottish fear and perplexity. And his rider with madness; an impotency of mind both in the understanding, which is folly and imprudence, and in the will and resolution, which is either cowardice or unconstancy, like madmen that neither know how to resolve or act. God will turn all their counsel into... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 12:5

The governors of Judah, the counsellors and rulers at home, and the leaders and captains abroad, the Maccabees and others, every one for himself, shall say in their heart; shall think, believe, and reckon upon it, and be hearty in it. The inhabitants of Jerusalem, though but few and poor, yet they shall be my strength: and these shall be ready and forward to go forth against their enemies, with a handful of men to encounter mighty and numerous armies, because their strength and help lieth in... read more

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