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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zechariah 10:9 - 10:9
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sow them among ... people - Their dispersion was with a special design. Like seed sown far and wide, they shall, when quickened themselves, be the fittest instruments for quickening others (compare Mic 5:7). The slight hold they have on every soil where they now live, as also the commercial and therefore cosmopolitan character of their pursuits, making a change of residence easy to them, fit them peculiarly for missionary work [Moore]. The wide dispersion of the Jews just before Christ’s coming prepared the way similarly for the apostles’ preaching in the various Jewish synagogues throughout the world; everywhere some of the Old Testament seed previously sown was ready to germinate when the New Testament light and heat were brought to bear on it by Gospel preachers. Thus the way was opened for entrance among the Gentiles. “Will sow” is the Hebrew future, said of that which has been done, is being done, and may be done afterwards [Maurer], (compare Hos 2:23).
shall remember me in far countries - (Deu 30:1; 2Ch 6:37). Implying the Jews’ return to a right mind in “all the nations” where they are scattered simultaneously. Compare Luk 15:17, Luk 15:18, with Psa 22:27, “All the ends of the world remembering and turning unto the Lord,” preceded by the “seed of Jacob ... Israel ... fearing and glorifying Him”; also Psa 102:13-15.
live - in political and spiritual life.