Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Zechariah 8:15
So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.So — So with like steadiness of mind I have purposed to do well to you. read more
So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.So — So with like steadiness of mind I have purposed to do well to you. read more
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL AND CEREMONIAL REQUIREMENTS, Zechariah 7:1 to Zechariah 8:23. After a silence of nearly two years the voice of Zechariah was heard again. In the fourth year of Darius a deputation came to the prophet inquiring whether the observance of the fasts instituted to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem was still obligatory (Zechariah 7:1-3). This question would suggest itself to many as the temple neared completion, and as the seventy years since the destruction of... read more
10. Another ground for being of good courage may be found in the improvement in conditions which has taken place since the people began in earnest the rebuilding of the temple. How different is the present from the past. Before these days Better, R.V., “those.” Before the resumption of building operations. No hire for man,… for beast No returns were had from labors expended in the cultivation of the soil; there was not enough grown for fodder. To him that went out or came in In... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Zechariah 8:14
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:I repented not — I did not fail to do it. read more