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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zechariah 12:2

Jerusalem — That weak, unwalled city, and much more the church which is the antitype of Jerusalem. In the siege — Now when all this is in readiness, and no visible means of escape, then will God make them drink the wine of astonishment.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Zechariah 12:2. _JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING_] The Babylonians, who captivated and ruined the Jews, shall in their turn be ruined. I incline to think that what is spoken in this chapter about...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING - For encouragement, He promises the victory, and at first mentions the attack incidentally. Jerusalem is as a cup or basin, which its enemies take into their...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE SECOND BURDEN OF ZECHARIAH (12-14) CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Jerusalem's conflict and victory (Zechariah 12:1) _ 2. The vision of the pierced One and its results (Zechariah 12:10) Zecharia

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6. PEOPLE. peoples....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Zechariah 12:1-9. Jehovah's protection of His people As in the former Burden, the first section opens with a general Title (printed as such in R. V.), very similar to that of the First Burden (Zechar...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _cup of trembling_ Rather, BOWL OF REELING. The word is used of the bowl or bason in which the blood of the Paschal lamb was caught, Exodus 12:22, of the bowls used in the Temple service, 1 Kings 7:50...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A CUP OF TREMBLING— That is, I will cause it to produce the same effect on the neighbouring nations as a cup of intoxicating liquors, which causes trembling, astonishment, and terror. See Bishop Lowth...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE BURDEN OF THE LORD. Zechariah 12:1-2 RV. The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and for...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TR...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM Many scholars believe that in Zechariah 12-14 (omitting Zechariah 13:7) we have a third separate prophecy, the oldest in the book of Zechariah, written subsequent to the d...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TREMBLING] RV 'reeling.' The nations assailing Jerusalem would stagger like a drunken man. The figure is common: cp. Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 24:20; Jeremiah 51:7. AGAINST JUDAH _AND_ AGAINST JERUSALEM] T...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 12 V1 The *LORD’s message warns (about danger) to Israel. The *LORD spreads out the skies. He lays a strong base for the earth. An...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    The first part of this verse seems to imply that all who should attack Jerusalem would do so to their injury. The second part should perhaps be translated, _And also over Judah shall be_ (the tremblin...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֣ה אָ֠נֹכִי שָׂ֣ם אֶת ־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם סַף...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE CONTENTS OF "ZECHARIAH" Chapter s 9-14 FROM the number of conflicting opinions which prevail upon the subject, we have seen how impossible it is to decide upon a scheme of division for "Zechariah...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    8. JUDAH VERSUS JERUSALEM Zechariah 12:1 A title, though probably of later date than the text, introduces with the beginning of chapter 12 an oracle plainly from circumstances different from those of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JERUSALEM'S DAY OF MOURNING Zechariah 12:1-14 This vision refers to a time yet future, when the Jews shall have returned to their own land, but still in unbelief; and will be assailed by their foes,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The second message has to do with things wholly future. The King spoke of in the previous message, whose rejection was there foretold, is now seen coming into His kingdom. This the prophet described i...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, I will make Jerusalem a (b) cup of trembling to all the people around, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. (b) Jerusalem will be defended against all h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    A lintel of surfeiting. That is, a door into which they shall seek to enter, to glut themselves with blood: but they shall stumble, and fall like men stupified with wine. It seems to allude to the tim...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 В¶ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Zechariah begins here to teach us what I have briefly explained, that Jerusalem would be under the protection of God, who would render it safe and secure against all enemies. But he uses here figurati...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The introduction of Antichrist, a shepherd [1] in Israel, brings in also the events that crowd around Jerusalem in the last days. All the nations should be gathered round Jerusalem, but only to find i...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE ROUND ABOUT,.... The Targum renders it, "a vessel full of inebriating liquor;'' which intoxicates and makes giddy, and causes to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. Ver. 2. _Behold, I will make Jerusalem a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling_ “An inebriating and stupifying potion of the strongest liquor and drugs. Jerusalem shall strike the nations with dread and astonishment.” _When they...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling, a vessel filled with the intoxicating beverage of His wrath, UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE ROUND ABOUT, the neighboring nations reeling and falling in hopeless...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOVAH'S SOLICITUDE FOR ISRAEL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DELIVERANCE OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (vv. 1-9) In this chapter Judah is mentioned five times, Jerusalem ten times. All in this chapter (as well as Chapter s 13 and 14) is prophetic of the future...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TREMBLING: Or, slumber or poison WHEN THEY SHALL BE IN THE SEIGE BOTH AGAINST JUDAH AND AGAINST JERUSALEM: Or, and also against Judah shall he be which shall be in seige against Jerusalem...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Here is a Divine prediction, which will be a heavy burden to all the enemies of the church. But it is for Israel; for their comfort and benefit. It is promised that God will make foolish the coun...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM; that weak, unwalled, poor, and thinly inhabited city, type of the church; and much more the church, which is antitype to Jerusalem. A CUP OF TREMBLING; they shall drink their ow...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zechariah 12:2 make H7760 (H8802) Jerusalem H3389 cup H5592 drunkenness H7478 surrounding H5439 peoples H5971 siege...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FUTURE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND THE DWELLERS IN JERUSALEM, THE SERVANT PIERCED, THE SPIRIT POURED OUT, THE SUPERSEDING OF PROPHECY, THE FIRES OF REFINEMENT (ZECHARIAH 12:1 TO ZECHARIAH 13:9). Zec...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INITIAL FUTURE OF JERUSALEM (ZECHARIAH 12:1) Zechariah 12:1 ‘Thus says YHWH, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.' These wo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    12:1. _The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heaven, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him._ Note how th...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Zechariah 12:1. The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Beh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jerusalem's coming siege by the Beast and his armies. Deliverance of Judah by the Lord Himself. The Spirit poured out and the pierced one recognized. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Z...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Zechariah 12:1. _The burden of the word of the Lord._ It was indeed a burden to pass the sentence of heaven against the infidels of Asia, under the names of Gog, Magog, and Meshech; the infidels of Af...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces _ SIN SELF-PUNISHMENT There is in this passage a principle by which the governor of the world punishes malicious men. That principle is th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZECHARIAH 12:1 The Second Oracle: The People and Their Leaders. In this last section of the book, hope for Judah is tied to the “house of David.” The future of Jerusalem is described in various ways,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 12:2 Jerusalem will be God’s instrument of judgment on the nations. It will be an intoxicating CUP OF STAGGERING. Drinking it will result in shame, disorientation, and dest...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter begins the first half of the second prophecy concerning Israel’s future and the nations of the world. The conflict against Jerusalem and Judah will issue in the destructi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-14:21 B. THE SECOND BURDEN. ZECHARIAH 12:1 § 1. The prophet proceeds to announce Israel's conflict with heathen powers. Hostile nations gather together against Jerusalem, but sha...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, we're out of the fog and into the clear day. Out of the haze and smog. Into the glorious pure age, as this final vision of Zechariah tells us about the glorious new age that God is going to estab...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Isaiah 51:23; Jeremiah

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