Zechariah 12:2-3

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

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Zechariah 12:1-4

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter begins the first half of the second prophecy concerning Israel’s future and the nations of the world. The conflict against Jerusalem and Judah will issue in the destruction of the enemies (Zechariah 12:1-4). Burden] Implying distress to Israel and destruction to their foes; explained by reference to God’s creative power, which removes all doubt concerning the thing predicted. Zechariah 12:2. Cup] Causing those who drink to reel; a symbol of Divine judgments, which... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Zechariah 12:1-14

Chapter 12Now, we're out of the fog and into the clear day. Out of the haze and smog. Into the glorious pure age, as this final vision of Zechariah tells us about the glorious new age that God is going to establish, the Kingdom Age upon the earth. Over and over in these last three chapters you are going to be reading the phrase, "In that day," and that is the preface to the declaration of many of the fascinating aspects of the Kingdom Age, and that great judgment that will immediately precede... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 12:1-14

Zechariah 12:1 . The burden of the word of the Lord. It was indeed a burden to pass the sentence of heaven against the infidels of Asia, under the names of Gog, Magog, and Meshech; the infidels of Africa, under the names of Ham and of Tarshish, or Carthage. Against the infidels of Europe, under the name of the isles of the gentiles, or the Greeks, and also the Goths. Herodotus notes, that our forefathers had no walled towns, but lived in light habitations. So the Medes found them, when they... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 12:2-3

Zechariah 12:2-3All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces Sin self-punishmentThere is in this passage a principle by which the governor of the world punishes malicious men.That principle is this, in the reaction of their efforts to injure others to injury of themselves. Jerusalem would become confusion and destruction to the men who sought its ruin.1. Jerusalem would become a “cup of trembling,” or “intoxication.”2. Jerusalem would become to them a “burdensome stone.”The idea... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Zechariah 12:2

Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. Ver. 2. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling ] Or, slumber, or poison. A metaphor taken from a cup of generous wine, but empoisoned; so that those that drink of it do presently tremble, grow giddy, sleepy, sick as hear can hold. Poison in wine works more furiously. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of giddiness,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Zechariah 12:3

Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. Ver. 3. I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone ] Such a stone as that wherewith the woman brake Abimelech’s brain pan, at the tower of Thebez, Judges 9:53 . He had slain all his brethren upon one stone, Judges 9:5 , he receives, therefore, his death’s wound by a stone; and that by the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Zechariah 12:2

a cup: Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22, Isaiah 51:23, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 25:17, Jeremiah 49:12, Jeremiah 51:7, Habakkuk 2:16, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 16:19, Revelation 18:6 trembling: or, slumber, Jeremiah 51:57, or, poison, Jeremiah 8:14 when they: etc. or, and also against Judah shall he be, which shall be in siege against Jerusalem, Zechariah 14:14 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:21 - a mighty God Deuteronomy 28:52 - General Ezra 6:12 - destroy Esther 6:13 - If Mordecai... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Zechariah 12:3

in that: Zechariah 12:4, Zechariah 12:6, Zechariah 12:8, Zechariah 12:9, Zechariah 12:11, Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 2:9, Zechariah 10:3-Deuteronomy :, Zechariah 13:1, Zechariah 14:2, Zechariah 14:3, Zechariah 14:4, Zechariah 14:6, Zechariah 14:8, Zechariah 14:9, Zechariah 14:13, Isaiah 60:12, Isaiah 66:14-Nehemiah :, Ezekiel 38:1 - Ezekiel 39:29, Joel 3:8-Nehemiah :, Obadiah 1:18, Micah 5:8, Micah 5:15, Micah 7:15-Esther :, Habakkuk 2:17, Zephaniah 3:19, Haggai 2:22 a burdensome: Daniel 2:34,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Zechariah 12:2

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.Jerusalem — That weak, unwalled city, and much more the church which is the antitype of Jerusalem.In the siege — Now when all this is in readiness, and no visible means of escape, then will God make them drink the wine of astonishment. read more

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