Dwellest with the daughter of Babylon - The unusual idiom is perhaps chosen as expressive of God’s tenderness, even to the people who were to be destroyed, from which Israel was to escape. read more
After the glory - Jonathan: “Which it is promised to bring upon you.” This being the usual construction, the words involve a great course of God’s dealing, of first showing favor to those who will receive favor, then abandoning or punishing the rest; as, when the eight souls had been received into the ark, the flood came; when Lot and his had escaped out of Sodom, the fire came down from heaven; when Israel had passed the Red Sea, Pharaoh’s hosts were drowned; the election obtained what israel... read more
For behold I will shake My hand against them - As God promised of old against the enemies of His people , and they shall be a spoil to those who served them habitually.And ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent Me - Theodoret: “He was sent, not as God, but as Man. For as God He is equal to the Father. For He saith, “I am in the Father and the Father in Me, and, The Father who dwelleth in Me He doeth the works” John 14:10, and, “I and My Father are one” John 10:30, and “He who hath seen... read more
Zechariah 2:6-9. Ho, Ho! Ye sleepy Jews, come forth Come out from your prisons; and flee Make all the haste you can, from the land of the north From Chaldea, and Babylon, the chief city of it, which lay northward of Judea. The Jews, who still remained in those parts, are here exhorted to return with all speed from them, for a reason assigned, Zechariah 2:9. For I have spread you abroad As I executed my threats in scattering you, and your brethren of the ten tribes, all over the... read more
Encouragement to the builders (1:7-2:13)In the first vision some mounted patrol officers have just returned from a tour of duty and report to a rider on a red horse who is standing among some trees (7-10). The patrol officers report that throughout the empire all is calm and peaceful (11).This report may be good news for the Persians but it is not for the Jews, who have now been in bondage to foreign overlords for more than seventy years. They long for freedom and pray for God’s mercy (12-13).... read more
Ho, ho. Figure of speech Epixeuxis ( App-6 ), for emphasis. come forth: or, supply the Ellipsis "[escape]". I have spread. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:27 ; Deuteronomy 28:64 spread = scattered. as . Some codices, with five early printed editions, and Syriac, read "by", or "throughout". Vulgate reads "into". winds. Hebrew. ruach. App-9 . read more
Deliver. Hebrew Ho! Rescue , &c., as in Zechariah 2:6 read more
the LORD of hosts. See note on Zechariah 1:3 . After the glory = For His own glory. he that, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:10 ). App-92 . His eye . The primitive text read "Mine eye"; but the Sopherim say ( App-33 ) that they altered this to "His", regarding it as derogatory to Jehovah to rend aloud such pronounced anthropomorphic expressions. read more
their servants = their own slaves. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 2:6
Ho! ho! and flee - Such being the safety and glory in store for God’s people in Jerusalem, He who had so provided it, the Angel of the Lord, bids His people everywhere to come to it, saving themselves also from the peril which was to come on Babylon. So Isaiah bade them, “Go ye forth of Babylon; flee ye from the Chaldaeans with a voice of singing; declare ye, tell this, utter it to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed His servant Jacob” Isaiah 48:20. “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye... read more