Verse 11
"And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee."
The Redeemer himself speaks here; and his words have come to pass on a scale so fantastic that, even if Zechariah had fully understood the implications of his prophecy, he could scarcely have believed it.
"In that day ..." is a phrase often associated in the prophecies with "the times of the Messiah." Such an expression positively identifies the whole passage as Messianic.
"Shall join themselves to Jehovah ... shall be my people ..." This mingling of third person and first person declarations is similar to that found in Zechariah 2:8,9, "His eye ... I will shake." In all such instances, God is the speaker and the person spoken of, that is, both the third person and the first person. This gives a very amazing effectiveness as used in connection with declarations of the covenant Angel.
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