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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zechariah 9:8 - 9:8
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encamp about - (Psa 34:7).
mine house - namely, the Jewish people (Zec 3:7; Hos 8:1) [Maurer]. Or, the temple: reassuring the Jews engaged in building, who might otherwise fear their work would be undone by the conqueror [Moore]. The Jews were, in agreement with this prophecy, uninjured by Alexander, though he punished the Samaritans. Typical of their final deliverance from every foe.
passeth by ... returneth - Alexander, when advancing against Jerusalem, was arrested by a dream, so that neither in “passing by” to Egypt, nor in “returning,” did he injure the Jews, but conferred on them great privileges.
no oppressor ... pass through ... any more - The prophet passes from the immediate future to the final deliverance to come (Isa 60:18; Eze 28:24).
seen with mine eyes - namely, how Jerusalem has been oppressed by her foes [Rosenmuller] (Exo 3:7; Exo 2:25). God is said now to have seen, because He now begins to bring the foe to judgment, and manifests to the world His sense of His people’s wrongs.