Zaccaria 12:1

La Nuova Diodati

Loracolo della parola dellEterno riguardo a Israele. Cos dice lEterno che ha disteso i cieli, posto le fondamenta della terra e formato lo spirito delluomo dentro di lui:

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Riveduta Bibbia
Oracolo, parola dell’Eterno, riguardo a Israele. Parola dell’Eterno che ha disteso i cieli e fondata la terra, e che ha formato lo spirito dell’uomo dentro di lui:

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
IL carico della parola del Signore intorno ad Israele. Il Signore che ha stesi i cieli, ed ha fondata la terra; e che forma lo spirito dell’uomo dentro di esso; dice:

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cir, am 3504, bc 500

burden: Zechariah 9:1, Lamentations 2:14, Malachi 1:1

for: Isaiah 51:22, Isaiah 51:23, Jeremiah 30:10, Jeremiah 30:16, Jeremiah 50:34, Ezekiel 36:5-7, Joel 3:19, Joel 3:21, Obadiah 1:16, Obadiah 1:17

which: Job 26:7, Psalms 102:25, Psalms 102:26, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 136:5, Psalms 136:6, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 48:13, Isaiah 51:13, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 51:15, Hebrews 1:10-12

formeth: Genesis 2:7, Numbers 16:22, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Isaiah 57:16, Jeremiah 38:16, Ezekiel 18:4, Hebrews 12:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:1 - God Genesis 1:6 - Let there Genesis 2:1 - Thus Job 9:8 - Which Job 38:6 - Whereupon Isaiah 11:11 - set his hand Isaiah 13:1 - burden Jeremiah 32:17 - thou Amos 4:13 - he that Luke 11:40 - did Acts 14:15 - which Acts 17:24 - that made Acts 17:25 - seeing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel,.... And against their enemies; for the good of the church of God, for its joy, comfort, and salvation; or, "concerning Israel" x; what shall befall them in the latter day, as the destruction of antichrist, prophesied of in the preceding chapter Zechariah 11:1; and what is hereafter said may be believed that it shall be accomplished. The Lord is described in the greatness of his power, speaking as follows:

saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens: as a curtain,

Psalms 104:2 the expanse or firmament of heaven, which is stretched out as a canopy over all the earth around:

and layeth the foundation of the earth; firm and sure, though upon the seas and floods, yea, upon nothing, Psalms 24:2:

and formeth the spirit of man within him; the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, gifts and endowments; which is of his immediate creation, and which he continues daily to form, and infuse into the bodies of men, and holds in life there; hence he is called the Father of spirits, Hebrews 12:9.

x על "de", Piscator, Drusius; "super Israele", Cocceius, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The burden of the word of the Lord for - Rather, “upon (see at Nahum 1:1, p. 129) Israel.” If this prophecy is a continuation of the last, notwithstanding its fresh title, then “Israel” must be the Christian Church, formed of the true Israel which believed, and the Gentiles who were grafted into them. So Cyril; “Having spoken sufficiently of the Good Shepherd Christ, and of the foolish, most cruel shepherd who butchered the sheep, that is, antichrist, he seasonably makes mention of the persecutions which would from time to time arise against Israel; not the Israel according to the flesh, but the spiritual, that Jerusalem which is indeed holy, “the Church of the Living God” 1 Timothy 3:15. For as we say, that “he” is spiritually a Jew, who hath the “circumcision in the heart,” Romans 2:29, that through the Spirit, “and not” in the flesh “through the letter;” so also may “Israel” be conceived, not that of the blood of Israel, but rather that, which has a mind beholding God. But such are all who are called to sanctification through the faith in Christ, and who in Him and by Him, know of God the Father. For this is the one true elected way of beholding God.”

Since the Good Shepherd was rejected by all, except the “poor of the flock,” the “little flock” which believed in Him, and thereupon the “band” of “brotherhood” was dissolved between Israel and Judah, “Israel” in those times could not be Israel after the flesh, which then too was the deadly antagonist of the true israel, and thus early also chose antichrist, such as was Bar-Cochba, with whom so many hundreds of thousands perished. There was no war then against Jerusalem, since it had ceased to be (see the notes on Micah 3:12).

But Zechariah does not say that this prophecy, to which he has annexed a separate title, follows, in time, upon the last; rather, since he has so separated it by its title, he has marked it as a distinct prophecy from the preceding. It may be, that he began again from the time of the Maccabees and took God’s deliverances of the people Israel then, as the foreground of the deliverances to the end ).

Yet in the times of Antiochus, it was one people only which was against the Jews, and Zechariah himself speaks only of the Greeks; Zechariah 9:13; here he repeatedly emphasizes that they were “all nations” (Zechariah 12:2-3, Zechariah 12:6, Zechariah 12:9). It may then rather be, that the future, the successive efforts of the world to crush the people of God, and its victory amid suffering, and its conversions of the world through the penitent looking to Jesus, are exhibited in one great perspective, according to the manner of prophecy, which mostly exhibits the prominent events, not their order or sequence. : “The penitential act of contrite sinners, especially of Jews, looking at Him “whom they pierced,” dates from the Day of Pentecost, and continues to the latter days, when it will be greatly intensified and will produce blessed results, and is here concentrated into one focus. The rising up of God’s enemies against Christ’s Church, which commenced at the same time, and has been continued in successive persecutions from Jews, Gentiles, and other unbelievers in every age, and which will reach its climax in the great antichristian outbreak of the last times, and be confounded by the Coming of Christ to judgment, is here summed up in one panoramic picture, exhibited at once to the eye.”

Which stretcheth forth the heavens - God’s creative power is an ever-present working, as our Lord says, “My Father worketh hitherto and I work” John 5:17. His preservation of the things which He has created is a continual re-creation. All “forces” are supported by Him, who alone hath life in Himself. He doth not the less “uphold all things by the word of His power,” because, until the successive generations, with or without their will, with or against His Will for them, shall have completed His Sovereign Will, He upholds them uniformly in being by His Unchanging Will. Man is ever forgetting this, and because, “since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as from the beginning of the creation” 2 Peter 3:4, they relegate the Creator and His creating as far as they can to some time, as far back as they can imagine, enough to fill their imaginations, and forget Him who made them, in whose bands is their eternity, who will be their Judge. So the prophets remind them and us of His continual working, which people forget in the sight of His works; “Thus saith the Lord; He that createth the heavens, and stetcheth them out; He that spreadeth forth the earth and its produce, who giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein” Isaiah 42:5; and, “I am the Lord who maketh all things, who stretcheth out the heavens alone, who spreadeth abroad the earth by Myself” Isaiah 44:24; speaking at once of that, past in its beginning yet present to us in its continuance, but to Him ever-present present; and of things actually present to us, “that frustrateth the tokens of the liars” Isaiah 44:25; and of things to those of that day still future, “that confirmeth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of His messengers” Isaiah 44:26 : the beginning of which was not to be till the taking of Babylon. And the Psalmist unites past and present in one, “Donning light as a garment, stretching out the heavens as a curtain; who layeth the beams of His chambers on the waters, who maketh the clouds His chariot; who walketh on the wings of the wind; who maketh His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire; He founded the earth upon its base.” Psalms 104:2-5. And Amos, “He that formeth the mountains and createth the winds, and declareth unto man his thoughts” (Amos 4:13, add Amos 5:8); adding whatever lieth nearest to each of us.

And formeth the spirit of man, within him - Both by the unceasing creation of souls, at every moment in some spot in our globe, or by the re-creation, for which David prays, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” Psalms 51:10. He who formed the hearts of people can overrule them as He wills. Cyril: “But the spirit of man is formed by God in him, not by being called to the beginnings of being, although it was made by Him, but, as it were, transformed from weakness to strength, from unmanliness to endurance, altogether being transelemented from things shameful to better things.”

Cyril: “It is the custom of the holy prophets, when about to declare beforehand things of no slight moment, to endeavor to show beforehand the Almightiness of God, that their word may obtain credence, though they should declare what was beyond all hope, and (to speak of our conceptions) above all reason and credibility.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XII

The first part of this chapter, with several passages in

chap xiv., relates to an invasion that shall be made on the

inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem in the latter ages of the

world, some time after the restoration and settlement of the

Jews in their own land. It also describes, in very magnificent

terms, the signal interposition of God in their favour. From

this the prophet proceeds in the latter part of the chapter,

10-14, to describe the spiritual mercies of God to converting

his people; and gives a very pathetic and affecting account of

the deep sorrow of that people, when brought to a sense of

their great sin in crucifying the Messiah, comparing it to the

sorrow of a parent for his first-born and only son, or to the

lamentations made for Josiah in the valley of Megiddon,

2 Chronicles 35:24-25.

A deep, retired sorrow, which will render the mourners for a

season insensible to all the comforts and enjoyments of the

most endearing society.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII

Verse Zechariah 12:1. The burden of the word of the Lord — This is a new prophecy. It is directed both to Israel and Judah, though Israel alone is mentioned in this verse.

Which stretcheth forth the heavens — See on Isaiah 42:5.

Formeth the spirit of man within him. — Then it is not the same substance with his body. It is a SPIRIT within HIM.