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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Zechariah 9:12

Strong hold. — Better, steepness of their own land. Those who still remained in Babylon are exhorted to come forth. Somewhat similarly, in Zechariah 8:8 (which is on all sides admitted to be written after the return from the captivity) we read: “And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.” They are “prisoners of hope,” being prisoners still in Babylon, and “of hope,” because, if they chose to accept them, they are the subjects of glorious hopes and promises.

Double. — Recompense for all these sufferings (Isaiah 61:7).

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See also Zechariah 9:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Zechariah 9:12. _TURN YOU TO THE STRONG HOLD_] Ye who _feel_ your _sins_, and are _shut up_ under a sense of your guilt, look up to him who was delivered for your offences, and rose again for y...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TURN YE TO THE STRONGHOLD - that is, Almighty God; as the Psalmists so often say, “The Lord is the defense of my life” (Psalms 27:1, add Psalms 31:5; Psalms 37:39;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE TWO PROPHETIC BURDENS--THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF THE FUTURE I. The First Burden (9-11) CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The burden of the land of Hadrach (Zechariah 9:1) _ 2. Zion's King of Peace (Zechariah 9...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A fragment, mutilated at the beginning, apparently slightly earlier than Zechariah 9:9 f., from which it differs in its bellicose tone. The Jewish nation is told that the Lord is now releasing its mem...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TURN. Return. STRONG HOLD. Hebrew. _bizzaron_ (from _bazaar_, to cut off). a safe because of inaccessible place. Occurs only here. HOPE. the hope: i.e. which God had given, and on which He had cause...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Coming of the King The great event for which all that had been foretold in the preceding verses of the chapter, and indeed all the preceding history of Israel and of the world, had been a prepara...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse coheres closely with the verse which precedes it, and a full stop should be printed at the end of it, as in R. V. There is a sharp contrast between the _stronghold_here and the _pit_there....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1253 CHRIST A STRONG HOLD Zechariah 9:12. _Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee_. IF the declarations of God be h...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH KING. Zechariah 9:9-17 RV. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, an...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; TURN YOU TO THE STRONG HOLD - in contrast to the "pit" (Zechariah 9:11) [ bitsaarown...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:12 double (f-17) Isaiah 61:7 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENTS ON THE NATIONS. THE PRINCE OF PEACE 1-8. A judgment is about to fall on Damascus, Hamath, Tyre, Sidon, and the cities of the Philistines. A remnant from Philistia will acknowledge God. God...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STRONG HOLD] probably Jerusalem. PRISONERS OF HOPE] i.e. the Jews, who by their covenant with God had a sure hope of deliverance. DOUBLE] cp. Isaiah 61:7 evidently a reference to restoration from exi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 9 V1 What the *LORD says warns (about punishment) to the country of Hadrach. (The punishment) will start at Damascus. (This will ha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שׁ֚וּבוּ לְ בִצָּרֹ֔ון אֲסִירֵ֖י הַ תִּקְוָ֑ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. THE PRINCE OF PEACE Zechariah 9:9 This beautiful picture, applied by the Evangelist with such fitness to our Lord upon His entry to Jerusalem, must also be of post-exilic date. It contrasts with t...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A LOWLY DELIVERER BRINGS PEACE Zechariah 9:9-17; Zechariah 10:1-12 Jesus must be King first, then Savior. He is lowly; His steed is not the richly caparisoned warhorse, but the humble ass; He needs n...

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

    Here begins the second division of the prophecy in which there are two messages. The first the prophet described as "the burden of the word of the Lord upon the land of Hadrach"; it deals with the rej...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Turn ye to the (t) strong hold, ye (u) prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render (x) double to thee; (t) That is, into the holy land where the city and the temple are, where Go...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hold. Return ye, who stay behind, to Jerusalem. God will make good all that you abandon; or come, Judas has procured liberty for the people, 1 Machabees iv. 36. (Calmet) --- Embrace the gospel, and e...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons,...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _PRISONERS OF HOPE_ ‘Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.’ Zechariah 9:12 The prophet is speaking to those who are emphat...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Zechariah proceeds with the same subject. He bids the Jews suddenly to retake themselves to their fortress. There is no doubt but that he means by that term the holy land; nor do I oppose the opinion...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, 9, AND 10. The prophecy, from chapter 7 to the end of the book, has for its special object the introduction of the Messiah in Israel, with the consequen...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TURN YE TO THE STRONG HOLD, YE PRISONERS OF HOPE,.... "That hope for redemption", as the Targum paraphrases it; not for redemption from the Babylonish captivity, at the end of seventy years, which was...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render double unto thee; Ver. 12. _Turn ye to the strong hold_] _i.e._ To Christ, the Rock of Ages, Isaiah 26...

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

    _Turn you to the strong hold_ To Zion, to the church of God, the strong city, mentioned Isaiah 26:1, which has salvation for walls and bulwarks; to the name of the Lord, which is a strong tower, his m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Turn you, or, "return,". TO THE STRONGHOLD, the fortified city, in opposition to the pit which had just been mentioned, YE PRISONERS OF HOPE, who in spite of the present afflictions maintained their h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Zion's King of Peace and his Salvation...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SYRIA, TYRE AND PHILISTIA TO FALL UNDER JUDGMENT (vv. 1-8) Beginning with this chapter the book of Zechariah has a distinctly different character. No dates are mentioned as in the first section of t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-17 The prophet breaks forth into a joyful representation of the coming of the Messiah, of whom the ancient Jews explained this prophecy. He took the character of their King, when he entered Jerusal...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TURN YOU: the prophet exhorts the Jews, both those in Babylon still, and those already in Canaan, to hasten up to THE STRONG HOLD; to Jerusalem, say some, which had been a strong hold, and which was n...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zechariah 9:12 Return H7725 (H8798) stronghold H1225 prisoners H615 hope H8615 today H3117 declare H5046 (H8688)

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    STRONG HOLD See context, (Zechariah 9:14). Also, (Jeremiah 16:19)....

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Zechariah 9:12 The prophet is speaking to those who are emphatically called "Christ's prisoners," those for whom, by His kingly power, He has gone up on high, and given to them repentance, that He mi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Zechariah 9:1. _The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach,_ Or, Syria, Zechariah 9:1. _And Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, s...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    As we read these ancient prophecies, we will not only notice how exactly they have been fulfilled, but we will also try to learn the lesson that they are intended to teach us. Zechariah 9:1. The burd...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burden upon the cities surrounding Palestine. Christ presented as King-Savior in His first advent. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ, Israel's King, who came as the meek and lowl...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Zechariah 9:1. _The burden of Hadrach and Damascus._ Hadrach, the old name of Hazor, the Hebrews being accustomed to adhere to primitive names of cities and nations. Judges 4:2; Jeremiah 49:28. This k...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope _ IMPRISONED BY HOPE In Zechariah 9:8 is the assurance that the Divine blessing specially rests on Israel returned to Jerusalem. On this assurance i...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 9:1 The Return of the King. The reference to the surrounding nations in Zechariah 8:20 and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 9:12 The prisoners of war are not the only ones who need to hear the news of the coming king. The day is coming when God will make his people themselves into a weapon again...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Zechariah 9:12. Strong hold] Fortress, forcibly contrasting with pit (Psalms 40:2). TO-DAY] No need to despair; their condition miserable, yet not hopeless. DOUBLE] Not strictly of _...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-14:21 Part III. THE FUTURE OF THE POWERS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. VERSE 1-11:17 A. THE FIRST...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, and all of the tribes of Israel shall be toward the LORD. And Hamath also s...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 37:11; Hebrews 6:18; Hosea 2:15; Isaiah 38:18; Isaiah 40:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Turn ye — The prophet exhorts the Jews to hasten to Christ, who is the salvation and high tower of the church. Prisoners of hope — Captives, yet not without hope. Even to — day — In this day of lowest...

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