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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zechariah 12:6 - 12:6
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On “governors of Judah,” see on Zec 9:7.
hearth - or pan.
torch ... in a sheaf - Though small, it shall consume the many foes around. One prophet supplements the other. Thus Isa 29:1-24; Joe 3:1-21; Zechariah 12:1-14:21, describe more Antichrist’s army than himself. Daniel represents him as a horn growing out of the fourth beast or fourth kingdom; St. John, as a separate beast having an individual existence. Daniel dwells on his worldly conquests as a king; St. John, more on his spiritual tyranny, whence he adds a second beast, the false prophet coming in a semblance of spirituality. What is briefly described by one is more fully prophesied by the other [Roos].