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Zechariah 8:4

ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON Zechariah 8:4 Old and young, male and female are portrayed as enjoying their new home. This ideal picture implies peace and plenty for everyone. It also contrasts dramatically with the slave labor and poverty that had marked Jerusalem in the recent past.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Zechariah 8:4. _THERE SHALL YET OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN_] In those happy times the followers of God shall live out all their days, and the _hoary head_ be always found in the way of righteousness....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THERE SHALL YET DWELL OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN - Dionysius: “Men and women shall not be slain now, as before in the time of the Babylonish destruction, but shall fulfill their natural course.” It shall n...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The restoration announced (Zechariah 8:1) _ 2. The peace of Jerusalem (Zechariah 8:4) 3. The return to the land (Zechariah 8:6) 4. The blessing of the land and the people ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ZECHARIAH 8:4 F. A beautiful description of the result of the restoration of peace and safety. During the troublous past Jerusalem had been no place for feeble old age or for children. The sympathetic...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE THIRD ANSWERING STATEMENT. Zechariah 8:1-8 - RV. And the word of Jehovah of hosts came to me, saying, Thus-' saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. THERE SHALL YET OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN D...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    REITERATION OF GOD'S PROMISES CONCERNING JERUSALEM The whole chapter is made up of ten short oracles each introduced by the formula, 'Thus saith the Lord of hosts' (except Zechariah 8:3). God has com...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (4-5) This promise may well be regarded as having been fulfilled to the letter in the days of Simon the Maccabee (1Ma. 14:4-15), when “the ancient men sat in all the streets... and the young men put o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות עֹ֤ד יֵֽשְׁבוּ֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He confirms what we have already stated, that the Jews would be safe under the hand and protection of God, as he would dwell among them. The cause of a safe and quiet state he made to be the presence...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age._ Ver. 4. _There shall yet old men and ol...

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

    _There shall yet old men, &c., dwell in Jerusalem_ Namely, both at this time and afterward. Formerly war, or famine, or pestilence, or wasting diseases cut off men and women before they grew to old ag...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the name used throughout these prophecies to denote His majesty and power, THERE SHALL YET OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN DWELL IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM, since they would not b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RESTORATION DESCRIBED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR VERY AGE: _ Heb._ multitude of days...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 The sins of Zion were her worst enemies. God will take away her sins, and then no other enemies shall hurt her. Those who profess religion must adorn their profession by godliness and honesty. Wh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLD MEN; very old men, and very old women: formerly war, or famine, or pestilence and wasting disease, or wild beasts, did cut off men and women before they grew to old age; but now it shall be otherw...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zechariah 8:4 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 men H2205 women H2205 sit H3427 (H8799) streets...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Zechariah 8:1. _Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury._ Because t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's unchanging purpose to restore Jerusalem and bless Israel in the Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: Jerusalem, the city of God, and Israel, the people of God, have G...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Old men and old women,.. .boys and girls _ INHABITANTS OF THE HOLY CITY What a lovely civic picture, what a charming representation! Dear old travellers, sweet old mothers, each with a staff in han...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem _ THE BLESSED COMMUNITY OF MEN YET TO APPEAR ON THE EARTH I. Here is a community specially interesting to the great God. “Again the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:31; Hebrews 12:22; Isaiah 65:20; Job 42:17; Job 5:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Old men — Formerly war, or famine or pestilence, and wasting diseases, cut off men and women before they came to old age....

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