ဇောစက်ရာမှင် 9:13

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13 ယုဒလေးကို ငါတင်၍၊ ဧဖရိမ်လေးကို ဆွဲငင် လျက်၊ ဇိအုန်သားတို့ကို ဟေလသသားတို့တဘက်၌ နှိုး ဆော်၍၊ သင့်ကို သူရဲ၏ထားကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်စေမည်။

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bent: Zechariah 1:21, Zechariah 10:3-7, Zechariah 12:2-8, Micah 5:4-9, Revelation 17:14

and raised: Psalms 49:2-9, Lamentations 4:2, Amos 2:11, Obadiah 1:21

against: Daniel 8:21-25, Daniel 11:32-34, Joel 3:6-8, Micah 4:2, Micah 4:3, Mark 16:15-20, Romans 15:16-20, 1 Corinthians 1:21-28, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, 2 Timothy 4:7

made: Zechariah 12:8, Psalms 18:32-35, Psalms 45:3, Psalms 144:1, Psalms 149:6, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 49:2, Ephesians 6:17, Hebrews 4:12, Revelation 1:16, Revelation 2:12, Revelation 19:15, Revelation 19:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 45:5 - Thine Psalms 110:5 - strike Psalms 149:7 - General Isaiah 27:13 - the great Isaiah 49:25 - I will contend Jeremiah 30:19 - I will Jeremiah 51:20 - art Joel 2:23 - ye children Micah 4:7 - I will Micah 4:13 - thou shalt Micah 5:5 - then Zechariah 4:6 - Not Zechariah 8:13 - O house Zechariah 10:4 - of him came forth Zechariah 10:5 - as Acts 20:2 - Greece

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I have bent Judah for me,.... By whom are meant the apostles, who were Jews, and whose ministrations were made use of as a bow with arrows, to strike the hearts of men, and bring them into subjection to Christ: they were a bow of the Lord's bending and preparing, and which abode in strength, being made strong and effectual through the hands of the mighty God of Jacob:

filled the bow with Ephraim: or rather, "filled Ephraim with the bow" p; filled his hand with it; meaning, that some out of the ten tribes, as were the apostles, should be employed in drawing the bow of the Gospel, and shooting its arrows, the doctrines of it; which are comparable to them for swiftness, suddenness, and secrecy, and for their piercing and penetrating nature:

and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece; that is, persons of the land of Judea, as such the apostles were, and who belonged to Zion the church of Christ; who were raised up, qualified, and sent forth by him into the Gentile world, with weapons of warfare, not carnal, but spiritual; against the Gentiles in general, and the wise men of Greece, as at Athens, in particular, to confound some, and to conquer others, and bring them to the obedience of Christ. Some understand this of the Maccabees raised up against Antiochus, and the Greeks that possessed the kingdom of Syria:

and made thee as the sword of a mighty man; that is, made the Gospel in the hands of the church, and of her sons, as a sword in the hand of a mighty man, by whom execution is done with it; this is the sword of the Spirit, even the word of God; and is sharp and cutting, and is the power of God unto salvation; as it is girt upon the thigh, and is in the hands of Christ the most Mighty; and as it is accompanied with the Spirit of God, and of power.

p קשת מלאתי אפרים "arcu implebo [manum] Ephraim", Vatablus; so Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When - or For I have bent Judah for me As a mighty bow which is only drawn at full human strength, the foot being placed to steady it. It becomes a strong instrument, but only at God’s Will. God Himself bends it. It cannot bend itself. “And filled the bow with Ephraim.” The bow is filled, when the arrow is laid upon it. God would employ both in their different offices, as one. “And raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece.” Let people place this prophecy where they will, nothing in the history of the world was more contradictory to what was in human sight possible. “Greece was, until Alexander, a colonizing, not a conquering, nation. The Hebrews had no human knowledge of the site or circumstances of Greece. There was not a little cloud, like a man’s hand, when Zechariah thus absolutely foretold the conflict and its issue. Yet here we have a definite prophecy later than Daniel, fitting in with his temporal prophecy, expanding part of it, reaching on beyond the time of Antiochus, and fore-announcing the help of God in two definite ways of protection;

(1) “without war,” against the army of Alexander Zechariah 9:1-8;

(2) “in the war” of the Maccabees; and these, two of the most critical periods in their history after the captivity Zech. 9-16.

Yet, being expansions of part of the prophecy of Daniel, the period, to which they belong, becomes clearer in the event by aid of the more comprehensive prophecies. They were two points in Daniel’s larger prediction of the 3rd empire.”

And I will make thee as the sword of a mighty man - The strength is still not their own. In the whole history of Israel, they had only once met in battle an army, of one of the world-empires and defeated it, at a time, when Asa’s whole population which could bear arms were 580,000 (2 Chronicles 14:8-10 ff), and he met Zerah the Ethiopian with his million of combatants, besides his 500 chariots, and defeated him. And this, in reliance on the “Lord his God, to whom he cried, Lord, it is nothing to Thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power; help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go against this multitude” 2 Chronicles 14:11. Asa’s words found an echo in Judas Maccabaeus (1 Macc. 3:16-19), when the “small company with him asked him, How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong?” “It is no hard matter,” Judas answered, “for many to be shut up in the hands of a few, and with Heaven it is all one to deliver with a great multitude or a small company. For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from Heaven.” But his armies were but a handful; 3,000, on three occasions (1 Macc. 4:6; 7:40; 9:5), on one of which they are reduced by fear to 800 (1 Macc. 9:6); 10,000 on two occasions (1 Macc. 4:29; 10:74); on another, two armies of 8,000 and 3,000, with a garrison, not trusted to fight in the open field (1 Macc. 5:17-20); on one, 20,000 (1 Macc. 16:4); once only 40,000, which Tryphon treacherously persuaded Jonathan to disperse ; these were the numbers with which, always against “great hosts,” God gave the victory to the lion-hearted Judas and his brothers. But who except He, in whose hands are the hearts of people, could foresee that He, at that critical moment, would raise up that devoted family, or inspire that faith, through which they “out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens?” Hebrews 11:34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 9:13. When I have bent Judah — Judah is the bow, and Ephraim is the arrows; and these are to be shot against the Greeks. I am inclined, with Bp. Newcome, to consider that the language of this prophecy is too strong to point out the only trifling advantage which the Maccabees gained over Antiochus, who was of Macedonian descent; and it is probable that these prophecies remain to be fulfilled against the present possessors of Javan or Greece, Macedonia, and a part of Asia Minor.