Zechariah 13:2

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Zechariah 13:1-9

The Incentives to Worship (For Ascensiontide) Zechariah 13:6 The Prophet is anticipating the first Ascension Day, the day the Church observed last Thursday; a day which, for the importance of the event it commemorates, ranks with Christmas and with Easter. He is looking on to the first Ascension Day. Think what the picture is that floats up before him: The Passion is over; the Cross is ended; the forty days after the Resurrection are completed; and, at last, the great and final day has come,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zechariah 13:1-6

49. FOUR RESULTS OF JERUSALEM’S DELIVERANCEZechariah 12:8-14; Zechariah 13:1-6Upon the deliverance of Jerusalem, by the help of the converted Judah, there follow four results, each introduced by the words that it happened "in that day". {Zechariah 12:8-9; Zechariah 13:1-2} First, the people of Jerusalem shall themselves be strengthened. Second, the hostile heathen shall be destroyed, but on the house of David and all Jerusalem the spirit of penitence shall be poured, and they will lament for... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zechariah 13:1-9

THE CONTENTS OF "ZECHARIAH"Chapters 9-14FROM the number of conflicting opinions which prevail upon the subject, we have seen how impossible it is to decide upon a scheme of division for "Zechariah" 9-14. These chapters consist of a number of separate oracles, which their language and general conceptions lead us on the whole to believe were put together by one hand, and which, with the possible exception of some older fragments, reflect the troubled times in Palestine that followed on the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Zechariah 13:1-9

CHAPTER 13 1. The cleansing (Zechariah 13:1 ) 2. The blessed results of the cleansing (Zechariah 13:2-6 ) 3. The smitten Shepherd (Zechariah 13:7 ) 4. Salvation and condemnation (Zechariah 13:8-9 ) Zechariah 13:1 . This verse is misplaced; it belongs to the preceding chapter. It is a prophecy of the cleansing of the repenting portion of God’s earthly people. The fountain of cleansing, so beautifully expressed by Cowper: There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Zechariah 13:2

13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will cut off the {b} names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the {c} prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.(b) He promises that God will also purge them from all superstition, and that their religion will be pure.(c) Meaning, the false prophets and teachers, who are the corrupters of all religion, whom the Prophet here calls unclean spirits. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 13:1-9

Results in Great Blessing (vv. 1-4) Zechariah 13:1-9 is directly connected with what went before in Zechariah 12:1-14. Judah's repentance will find a wonderful restoring answer on the part of God. The fountain opened for the house of David in that day (v.1) will be the same fountain that was opened at Calvary, but never before acknowledged by the Jews. Only when they realize their sinfulness and uncleanness will they truly appreciate God's means of cleansing it away. As to judicial... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Zechariah 13:1-9

END THE AGE , OPEN THE MILLENNIUM It was stated that the first part of the book, chapters 1-8, referred chiefly, though not entirely, to the prophet’s own time. The basis of all the prophecies in that part had a historical relation to the period then present. They were uttered, to encourage the people in rebuilding the temple. And yet there is not one of them that did not take cognizance of the far future. The discourses of this, the second part, deal almost entirely with the future. It... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Zechariah 13:2-6

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. 3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live: for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Zechariah 13:2

No more. After the Machabees, the people were free from idolatry, and magical arts were repressed, Osee ii. 16., and Ezechiel xxxvii. 22. (Calmet) --- "Idolatry and heresy are punishable by death, in the law of Christ." (Worthington) --- To judge in these matters belongs only to the Church. (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 13:1-6

1-6 In the time mentioned at the close of the foregoing chapter, a fountain would be opened to the rulers and people of the Jews, in which to wash away their sins. Even the atoning blood of Christ, united with his sanctifying grace. It has hitherto been closed to the unbelieving nation of Israel; but when the Spirit of grace shall humble and soften their hearts, he will open it to them also. This fountain opened is the pierced side of Christ. We are all as an unclean thing. Behold a fountain... read more