Zechariah 8:22

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁸Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, ¹⁹"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace." ²⁰This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Peoples will yet come-the residents of many cities- ²¹and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: 'Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.' ²²And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD."²³This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "In those days ten men from all nations and languages will tightly grasp the robe of a Jewish man, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

Bible Verse Review
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Isaiah 25:7, Isaiah 55:5, Isaiah 60:3-22, Isaiah 66:23, Jeremiah 4:2, Micah 4:3, Haggai 2:7, Galatians 3:8, Revelation 15:4, Revelation 21:24

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:32 - is come Psalms 126:2 - then said Isaiah 14:1 - the strangers Isaiah 45:14 - The labour Isaiah 65:1 - unto Hosea 2:23 - Thou art my God Micah 2:12 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 8:8
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

Genesis 8:9
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because water still covered the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

Genesis 8:11
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 8:12
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

Genesis 8:16
"Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. Taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 45:6
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, 'Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, many people, and strong nations,.... Or, "mighty kingdoms", as the Targum renders it; even such have embraced the Gospel, and professed the Christian religion; of which there has been abundant proof since the downfall of Paganism under Constantine:

shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem; that is, shall attend the public worship of God in the church:

and to pray before the Lord; join in public prayer, and other ordinances of the Gospel. This phrase, which is used also in the preceding verse Zechariah 8:21, signifies that the Lord, and he only, is the object of prayer: it is not to be made to a creature, or to an idol made with hands, they had been used to pray to before, but to the one only living and true God, Father, Son, and Spirit; and that this is to be done as in the presence of God, who is omniscient, who knows all persons and their cases, and what are their ends and views in their petitions to him, and whether these come from a true heart and unfeigned lips; for all things are naked and open unto him, with whom we have to do; that, under the Gospel dispensation especially, men may come into the presence of God with great freedom and liberty, and pour out their souls before him, and with great boldness and confidence, through the blood of Christ being shed, and a new and living way opened by it, in which they may come and ask in faith whatever they want; though this should always be performed with reverence and godly fear, and with all humility and submission to the will of God: and though it may take in all sorts of prayer, and wherever and by whomsoever performed, either mental or vocal, in the closet or in the family, which is always to be done in like manner before God; yet it seems chiefly to design social and public prayer: which being put up to God in the church, may be said to be before the Lord, it being in the assembly of his saints, where he more especially grants his presence, and shows himself to be a God hearing and answering prayer; see

Psalms 65:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:22. And strong nations — This may refer to the conversion of the Mohammedan tribes; especially to those in the vicinity of Palestine. Perhaps even the Egyptians, inhabitants of Arabia Petraea, of Syria, &c.