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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 10:5-12

Here are divers precious promises made to the people of God, which look further than to the state of the Jews in the latter days of their church, and have certain reference to the spiritual Israel of God, the gospel-church, and all true believers. I. They shall have God's favour and presence, and shall be owned and accepted of him. This is the foundation of all the rest: The Lord is with them, Zech. 10:5. He espouses their cause, takes their part, is on their side; and, if he be for them, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 10:9

And I will sow them among the people , The people of God in the Gentile world: this is to be understood of the conversion of the Jews, when they will become the good seed that hear the word, and understand it, and bring forth fruit; and of their being known, acknowledged, and reckoned among the people of God, who now are not; and of their being planted in Gospel churches, where the word is truly preached; the ordinances are faithfully administered; the Lord grants his presence, and saints... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 10:10

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt ,.... The Targum paraphrases it, "and as I brought them out of the land of Egypt, so will gather their captivity out of Assyria;' suggesting there would be a likeness between the one and the other. Egypt may denote the state of distance and bondage in which all men are by nature; and the Jews, at their conversion, will be brought out of it, into the glorious liberty of the children of God, by the mighty arm of the Lord, according to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 10:11

And he shall pass through the sea with affliction ,.... Either the people of the Jews, as Israel of old did, when they came out of Egypt, to which the allusion is; or the wind shall pass through the sea, as Aben Ezra supplies it, and it shall become dry; that is, the river of Egypt: or "affliction" F18 Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Vatablus, Calvin, Drusius, Cocceius. , as many supply it, shall pass through the sea; the nations, which are many as the sea, as Kimchi interprets it; and so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 10:12

And I will strengthen them in the Lord ,.... Not the Egyptians and Assyrians, but the Jews, as in Zechariah 10:5 , the Targum is, "I will strengthen them in the word of the Lord;' in the Messiah, by his power, and in the grace that is in him; and their faith and hope in him, and love to him: or "by" F20 ביהוה "per Jehovam", Piscator. him; so that, through him strengthening them, they will be able to do all things; to exercise grace; perform duty; withstand temptation; oppose... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 10:9

I will sow them among the people - Wherever they have been dispersed, my voice in the preaching of the Gospel shall reach them. And they shall remember me, and they and their children shall turn again to the Lord, through Messiah their King. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 10:10

Out of the land of Egypt - I will bring them out of all the countries where they have been dispersed, and bring them back to their own land; and they shall be so numerous that they shall scarcely find there, in all its length and breadth, a sufficiency of room. If all the Jews that are now scattered over the face of the earth were gathered together, they would make a mighty nation. And God will gather them together. As a wonderful providence has preserved them in every place, so a wondrous... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 10:11

And he shall pass through the sea - Here is an allusion to the passage of the Red Sea, on their coming out of Egypt, and to their crossing Jordan, when they went into the promised land; the waves or waters of both were dried up, thrown from side to side, till all the people passed safely through. When they shall return from the various countries in which they now sojourn, God will work, if necessary, similar miracles to those which he formerly worked for their forefathers; and the people... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 10:12

I will strengthen them in the Lord - I, the God of Israel, will strengthen them in the Lord-Jesus, the Messiah; and thus indeed the Chaldee: I will strengthen them, דיי בימרא bemeymre dayai , in or by the Word of Jehovah, the same personal Word which we so often meet with in the Chaldee paraphrases or Targum. They shall walk up and down in his name - In the name of the Messiah. Saith the Lord - God speaks here, not of himself, but concerning his Christ. The Jews shall have complete... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 10:9

Verse 9 He continues the same subject, and employs here a most suitable metaphor — that the dispersion of the people would have a better issue than what any one then could have conceived, for it would be like sowing. The verb for scattering or sowing is often taken in a bad sense; for when people rested in their country, they ought then to have considered that they were living under God’s protection. Dispersion, then, was an evidence of a curse, and it is often so taken by Moses. Now God uses... read more

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