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Zaccaria 12:5
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I capi di Giuda diranno in cuor loro: "Gli abitanti di Gerusalemme sono la mia forza nellEterno degli eserciti, il loro DIO
Ed i capi di Giuda diranno nel cuor loro: Oh! sienmi fortificati gli abitanti di Gerusalemme, nel Signor degli eserciti, loro Dio.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the governors: Zechariah 12:6, Judges 5:9, Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 1:26, Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 60:17, Jeremiah 30:21, Jeremiah 33:26, Ezekiel 45:8, Ezekiel 45:9
The inhabitants: etc. or, There is strength to me, and to the inhabitants, etc. Zechariah 10:6, Zechariah 10:12, Psalms 18:32, Psalms 18:39, Psalms 20:6, Psalms 20:7, Psalms 46:1, Psalms 68:34, Psalms 68:35, Psalms 118:10-14, Psalms 144:1, Isaiah 28:6, Isaiah 41:10-16, Joel 3:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 29:11 - thoughts Zechariah 14:14 - Judah also shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart,.... The governors of the rest of the cities in Judea, besides Jerusalem, when they shall observe the armies of the people, their horses and their riders, smitten by the Lord, as above, shall take heart, and be of good courage: and secretly say within themselves,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the Lord of hosts their God; that is, they, in the strength of the Lord, shall overcome their enemies, and so be the means of preserving and securing the other cities of Judah from destruction: the governors do not place their strength and confidence in the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but as they are strengthened in and by the Lord their God, from whom all strength, safety, and salvation come. In this and the following verse
Zechariah 12:6, by "the governors of Judah" are not meant Judas Maccabeus, and his brethren, as some think; for though there are some things in the context that seem to agree with them, and they may be an emblem of the governors in the times referred to, for their courage, bravery, and success; yet the thread of history, and series of prophecy, will not admit such a sense.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the princes of Judah - He pictures the onemindedness of the Church. No one shall assume anything to himself; each shall exalt the strength which the other was to him; but all, “in the Lord. The princes of Judah” shall say “in their heart,” not outwardly or politically, but in inward conviction, “strength to me” (all speak as one) “are the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the Lord of hosts their God.” The highest in human estimation acknowledge that their strength is in those who are of no account in this world; as, in fact the hearts of the poor are evermore the strength of the Church; but that, “in the Lord of hosts;” in Him, in whose hands are the powers of heaven and earth, over against the petty turmoil on earth. God had chosen Jerusalem Zechariah 1:17; Zechariah 2:12; Zechariah 3:2; therefore she was invincible. “That most glorious prince of Judah, Paul, said, ‘I can do all things in Christ who instrengtheneth me. ‘“
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 12:5. The governors of Judah — This supposes a union between the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
