Zechariah 9:13

When. — Better, for; and read the verbs in the future, the tense used being the “prophetic perfect.” These verses are prophetic of the military prowess of Israel, through the aid of the Lord God, and were signally fulfilled in the triumphs of the Maccabees over the Grecian rulers of Syria (B.C. 167-130), even though the prophet may not have had any distinct notion of such distant events.

With Ephraim. — As though with an arrow. (Ephraim, see Note on Zechariah 9:10, and on Zechariah 12:1.)