Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Ver. 5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls] Lads and lasses (as the Hebrew seems to sound), that mind little else but play as if, with leviathan, they had been made to sport, or as those people of Tombutum, in Africa, who are said to spend their whole time in singing and dancing. But this they could not do if the times were troublesome, and the soldier at his bloody play, according to that of Abner, 2 Samuel 2:14 "Let the young men now arise and play before us," that is, thrust their swords in their fellows' sides, 2 Samuel 2:16 .