Zechariah 12:7

the tents of Judah first The meaning seems to be that when the besiegers shall reel back like drunken men from the walls of Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:2), smitten with panic by God (Zechariah 12:4), the first to fall upon them and put them to the sword shall be, not the inhabitants of the besieged city by sallying forth from their walls, though they by their gallant and successful defence had rightly been regarded as the bulwark of the whole land (Zechariah 12:5), but the inhabitants of the open country, who shall have the honour of consuming their adversaries (Zechariah 12:6), and so of saving first themselves and then the capital, which as the result of their prowess shall be completely delivered.

that the glory, &c. The human agents are to have each their due share of honour. (Comp. Zechariah 12:5.) But to God alone the glory really belongs. "I will make," Zechariah 12:2-3; Zechariah 12:6; "I will smite," Zechariah 12:4; "Jehovah shall save," Zechariah 12:7. Compare "my strength in Jehovah of hosts, their God," Zechariah 12:5. "Sensus est, gloriam victi hostis non penes Hierosolymitanos futuram, quippe post superatum demum hostem ex urbe exituros, sed penes Judam, qui supra Zechariah 12:6 dicebatur ignis instar hostes circumquaque absumturus; aut penes ipsum potius Jovam, qui hostes amentia et cæcitate percusserit (Zechariah 12:4), Judam vero robore induerit ad hostes jamjam confusos ulterius debellandos." Rosenm.

do not magnify themselves be not magnified, R. V.