Isaiah 54:8). âWhosoever shall escape the famine, shall fall by the sword; The punishment which God inflicted upon Israel for their rebellion against him was as tragic as anything that can be imagined. Even the meaning of metsullâh is questionable. helped forward the affliction—afflicted My people more than I desired. Zechariah 7:7; 1 Chronicles 4:40, and Judges 18:27), points back to Haggai 2:7-8, Haggai 2:22-23. To understand עזרוּ לרעה as only referring to the prolonged oppression and captivity, does not sufficiently answer to the words. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. At ease; secure in their strength, sing a requiem to themselves and trouble to Israel. See Job 42:7. am very sore displeased with the heathen; exceedingly angry, and will show it, that they may see and feel it, my displeasure is grown up to the highest against them. Commentary on Zechariah 1:18-21 (Read Zechariah 1:18-21) The enemies of the church threaten to cut off the name of Israel. As long as the nations of the world enjoyed undisturbed peace, Judah could not expect any essential improvement in its condition. in Kennicott. The nations that are at ease ..." Here is heavenly comment on those nations "at rest" (Zechariah 1:11). Lex. But this is extremely foolish; for the Prophet here does not regard what the nations were able to do or had done; but, on the contrary, he speaks of their cruelty, that they thought that there ought to have been no end until the memory of that people had been obliterated. The reference is evidently to the seventy years during which the nations were permitted to execute judgment upon Israel (Isaiah 54:8). 335), who refers to Zechariah 14:18-19 in support of this, nor to be restricted to what was done in the immediate future for the rebuilding of the temple and of the city of Jerusalem. Later in the book of Zechariah, we are told of plagues on Egypt following Christ's return if they refuse to observe the Feast of Tabernacles (14:16-19), showing how God will work with all nations. It may be here first asked, How is it that God declares that he had been a little angry with his people, since his judgment, as pronounced by his servants, was most severe? WILL POUNDS. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten: and they talk to the grief of those whom thou bast wounded. This time limit the nations did not observe; they fancied that their success was due to their own wisdom and might; therefore they were planning to continue the oppression even after the time of visitation had expired; but Jehovah will not permit it. Zechariah introduced the eighth vision that he saw with the words, “And again I raised my eyes and saw, and look!” Identical or similar wording introduced five of the seven previous visions. Houbigant. This is the second basis of the Covenant Angel's intercession, here being relayed to Zechariah by the interpreting angel. Yet the principal enemy of chapter 6 is Babylon. This is the reason why God says, that he was but little angry with his people; for he speaks not of the reprobate and of that impure mass from which he purposed to cleanse his own house; but he has respect to his covenant. There is more authority for the assumption that metsullâh is only another form for metsūlâh, which is the reading in many codd., and which ordinarily stands for the depth of the sea, just as in Exodus 15:10 tsâlal signifies to sink into the deep. Let us hence learn to raise up our thoughts to the contemplation of Godâs hidden love, when he deals severely with us, and to be satisfied with his word, as we have there an indubitable evidence of his favor: nor let us envy our enemies and the wicked, however the whole world may applaud them, and they themselves luxuriate in their blessings, for we know that God is adverse to them. The meaning is, that the reward of cruelty would be repaid to all the enemies of the Church, because they had exercised immoderate severity, when it was Godâs purpose to chastise his children in a gentle and paternal manner. The word of the Lord contains two things: (1) the assurance of energetic love on the part of God towards Jerusalem (Zechariah 1:14, Zechariah 1:15); and (2) the promise that this love will show itself in the restoration and prosperity of Jerusalem (Zechariah 1:16, Zechariah 1:17). am very sore displeased with the heathen; I was but a little displeased with mine own people. 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a … The promise embraces the whole of the future of the kingdom of God; so that whilst the commencement of the fulfilment is to be seen in the fact that the building of the temple was finished in the sixth year of Darius, and Jerusalem itself was also restored by Nehemiah in the reign of Artaxerxes, these commencements of the fulfilment sim, And I am very sore displeased with the heathen. "I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtles which were in the hollow; and behind him red, speckled, and white horses. Zechariah 13 Commentary The Sword, the Shepherd, & the Sheep. The man's answer (vayya‛an, Zechariah 1:10) is not addressed to the prophet or to the angelus interpres, but to the angel of the Lord mentioned in Zechariah 1:11, to whom the former, with his horsemen (hence the plural, "they answered," in Zechariah 1:11), had given a report of the result of their mission. . Debhârı̄m tōbhı̄m are words which promise good, i.e., salvation (cf. col. 2721. That it behaved the Jews, though their condition was very hard according to the perception of men, to have yet acquiesced in the love of God, for they knew that he was their Father, and also, that though they saw their enemies happy, they were yet to regard it no otherwise than a cursed happiness. And the different epithets applied to the two furnish a decisive proof that the angel of the Lord and "the angel that talked with me" are not one and the same. This David complains of as an unsufferable grievance, Psalms 69:26. He therefore gives this answer, â That though the condition of the Gentiles was now better, there was yet no reason for the Jews to be discontented in their troubles, because they were to look forward to the end that was to come. The Septuagint, as in verse 4, does not include the pronoun “my.” (4:5) In answer to Zechariah, the angel made known to him the basic message of the vision. They help forward the addiction] They fall like dogs upon the wounded deer. Jeremiah 44:11. For although the Assyrians and Chaldaeans wasted the Jewish people, God so ordaining in as far as He willed through them to punish in the present the sins of His people, yet they did it, not in view of God and out of zeal for righteousness, but out of pride covetousness and with the worst ends. The circumstance that the angel of Jehovah addresses an intercessory prayer to Jehovah on behalf of Judah, is no more a disproof of his essential unity with Jehovah, than the intercessory prayer of Christ in John 17 is a disproof of His divinity. Commentary on Zechariah 6:9-15 (Read Zechariah 6:9-15) Some Jews from Babylon brought an offering to the house of God. Or, for a little while. They helped forward the affliction - o "He is wroth with the nations at ease, because He delivered His people to be corrected, but they used cruelty toward those delivered; He wills them to be amended as a son by a schoolmaster; they set themselves to slay and punish them, as an enemy. Hence God says by Isaiah, "Woe to Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in his hand is Mine indignation. Zechariah 14:1 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.. Isa 2:12 13:6,9 Joe 2:31 3:14 Mal 4:5 Acts 2:20 Rev 16:14 ; THE DAY OF THE LORD IS IMMINENT. An example of this horrible attitude is to be observed in the Biblical account of Jehu's excessive ruthlessness in the destruction he visited (at God's commandment) upon the house of Ahab and Jezebel. Very sore displeased — A participial construction expressing the idea that the wrath is permanent (compare Zechariah 1:2). zac 9:0. A stronger phrase than “is at rest” (Zechariah 1:11). Chapter 1. I am very sore displeased, &c.— I am very sore displeased with the nations who despise her, and who, after I had moderated my anger, have added to her affliction. The manner of speaking, used here deserves notice, God was angry with the quiet nations. 15. If we compare this with ch. Zechariah 1:7 The Month Sebat; ALAN CARR. (o) In destroying the reprobate, I showed myself but a little angry toward my Church, but the enemy would have destroyed them also, and did not consider the goal of my chastisements. The heathen sought the utter extinction of Judah to gratify their own ambition and revenge (Isaiah 47:6; Ezekiel 25:3, Ezekiel 25:6; Obadiah 1:10-17). 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, Sha'ănân, quiet and careless in their confidence in their own power and prosperity, which they regard as secured for ever. The prophet is to proclaim still more ("cry yet," Zechariah 1:17, referring to the "cry" in Zechariah 1:14). In particular, Jesus – the Good Shepherd – needed to be struck, according to verse 7. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen - in contrast with "I was but a little displeased" with my people. Their mission was rather to take an active part in the agitation of the nations, if any such existed, and guide it to the divinely appointed end, and that in the manner indicated by the colour of their horses; viz., according to Revelation 6, those upon the red horses by war and bloodshed; those upon the starling-grey, or speckled horses, by famine, pestilence, and other plagues; and lastly, those upon the white horses, by victory and the conquest of the world. Coffman Commentaries on the Bible. I was jealous; —I am jealous, as Zechariah 1:14 (where see note). Amos 6:1). Severely as God's children were punished, it is but a "little thing" compared to the destruction of the wicked yet to take place. As the first of the total 14 chapters in the book, this chapter is a part of a section (so-called "First Zechariah") consisting of Zechariah 1-8. Hence God says by Isaiah, “Woe to Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in his hand is Mine indignation. whosoever shall escape the sword, shall fall among wild beasts.â Ver. Some think that Jeremiah spoke this prophecy and Zechariah recorded it. Now they commonly being enraged with haughty, revengeful, and malicious desires, exceed their commission, and so derive the mischief upon themselves, {see Proverbs 24:17-18} they cannot do but they must overdo (as Nebuchadnezzar, the rod in God’s hand, Isaiah 10:5), and thereby utterly undo themselves for ever: for their cruelty comes up to heaven, 2 Chronicles 28:9, and God soon heareth the cry of his oppressed (for he is gracious), and avengeth himself on their pitiless enemies; standing over them and saying, as Isaiah 47:6 "I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou heavily laid thy yoke." This chapter has one of the most impressive calls to righteousness in the whole Bible (Zechariah 1:1-6), and the first two of eight remarkable visions: (1) that of the horsemen in the myrtle grove (Zechariah 1:7-11), with the divine interpretation of the vision (Zechariah 1:11-17), and (2) the vision of the four horns and the four smiths, including its divine interpretation (Zechariah … The perfect שׁבתּי is not purely prophetic, but describes the event as having already commenced, and as still continuing. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease] Heb. The measuring line is drawn over a city, to mark off the space it is to occupy, and the plan upon which it is to be arranged. The heathen that are at ease — R.V., “the nations.” Their continued peace (Zechariah 1:11) and prosperity have made them self-confident and careless (Isaiah 37:29). The hollow here is not a symbol of the power of the world, or the abyss-like power of the kingdoms of the world (Hengstenberg and M. Baumgarten), as the author of the Chaldee paraphrase in Babele evidently thought; for this cannot be proved from such passages as Zechariah 10:1-1215:59Isa Zechariah 44:27, and Psalm 107:24. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine, were conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards by Alexander. This compassion will show itself in the fact that the house of God is to be built in Jerusalem, and the city itself restored, and all the obstacles to this are to be cleared out of the way. Therefore (lâkhēn, Zechariah 1:16), because Jehovah is jealous with love for His people, and very angry with the heathen, He has now turned with compassion towards Jerusalem. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Or it may be, "helped for evil," in order to bring about evil, as in Jeremiah, "Behold I set My face against you for evil, and to destroy all Judah" Jeremiah 44:11, that is, as we should say, they were the instruments of God, , "cooperated in the execution of My justice toward you, but cruelly and with perverse intention. The following word, אשׁר, quod, introduces the reason why God is angry, viz., because, whereas He was only a little angry with Israel, they assisted for evil. Pentaglot. He weareth his rod to the stumps, and then throws it into the fire. Zechariah 1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen [that are] at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Not only would their peoples and cities be utterly destroyed, but the final rendezvous in hell yet awaits them. I would prune, but they struck at the root. I was but a little displeased - I was justly displeased with my people, and I gave their enemies a commission against them; but they carried this far beyond my design by oppression and cruelty; and now they shall suffer in their turn. He was angry because they had compounded the punishment of Israel that God had inflicted on the Chosen People by prolonging it (cf. They are “at ease,” but as I am “sore displeased” with them, their ease is accursed. Under such circumstances, the longing for an end to be put to the mournful condition of Judah could not fail to become greater and greater; and the prayer, "Put an end, O Lord, put an end to all our distress," more importunate than ever. Zechariah 1:15 "And I am very sore displeased with the heathen [that are] at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction." See Zechariah 1:11. For — This introduces the reason for the sore displeasure of Jehovah. The lxx have rendered it ψαροὶ καὶ ποικίλοι, like בּרדּים אמצּים in Zechariah 6:3; the Itala and Vulgate, varii; the Peshito, versicolores. the angelus interpres, whom he addresses as "my lord" ('ădōnı̄), answers, "I will show thee what these be;" whereupon the man upon the red horse, as the leader of the company, gives this reply: "These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to go through the earth;" and then proceeds to give the angel of the Lord the report of their mission, viz., "We have been through the earth, and behold all the earth sitteth still and at rest." are at ease — carnally secure. And they, the heathen, Babylonians, helped forward; attempted to destroy whom I would but correct, Isa 10 Isa 14. I am sore displeased - literally “with great anger am I angered against the nations which are at ease.” The form of the words shows that the greatness of the displeasure of God against those who oppress His people, is proportionate to the great and tender love toward themselves. 14 Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. col. 1307. ; and the meaning is, that they abounded in bringing evil upon the people of the Jews; they multiplied their afflictions and distresses. Nations, represented as four horns, ver. Displeased he may be with his own, and make bloody wales upon their backs, if need be; but then he looks that others should pity them, and not lay on more load, and seek to bring them to utmost extremity. Judah is in “affliction,” but as I love her and am jealous for her, she has every reason to be encouraged in prosecuting the temple work. 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