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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
Zechariah 8:7
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I: Psalms 107:2, Psalms 107:3, Isaiah 11:11-16, Isaiah 27:12, Isaiah 27:13, Isaiah 43:5, Isaiah 43:6, Isaiah 49:12, Isaiah 59:19, Isaiah 66:19, Isaiah 66:20, Jeremiah 31:8, Ezekiel 37:19-25, Hosea 11:10, Hosea 11:11, Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Malachi 1:11, Romans 11:25-27
west country: Heb. country of the going down of the sun, Psalms 50:1, Psalms 113:3
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:3 - gather thee Ezekiel 36:33 - cause Zechariah 10:6 - I will save Zechariah 10:10 - out of the
Cross-References
any kind of raven,
And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold,.... As being something wonderful, of great importance, and deserving attention:
I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; this can not be understood of bringing those Jews that remained in Babylon, and other places, to their own land, for Babylon lay north of Judea; see Zechariah 6:6, and as yet there were no Jews in the western part of the world; but now they are chiefly in the east and west, from whence they will be gathered at the time of their general conversion; though this may refer to the times of the apostles of Christ, and to their ministry in the several parts of the world, who went forth, east, west, north, and south, and were the means and instruments of saving the Lord's people, both Jews and Gentiles, wherever they came, from the rising of the sun, to the setting of the same; see Malachi 1:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will save My people from the East country and from the West country - Dionysius: “that is, the whole world; for Israel had been scattered in every part of the world.” God had said to Israel, “I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back” Isaiah 43:5-6. The two tribes had been carried to Babylon and had been dispersed, or had been allowed to migrate to the various provinces of the Babylonian or Persian empire. But these were in the East, though commonly called the north, because they invaded Israel from the north. Those who had migrated to Egypt were in the south. As yet none were in the West. The dispersion, as well as the gathering, was still future. When our Lord came, they had migrated westward. Greece, Italy, Asia minor, were full of them; and from all they were gathered. All Paul’s Epistles written to named Churches, were written to Churches formed from converts in the West. In all these countries God would gather His one people, His Church, not of “the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles” Romans 9:24, grafted into them, as our Lord said, “I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom (the unbelieving Jews, who were not the remnant) shall be cast out into outer darkness” Matthew 8:11-12.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 8:7. I will save my people from the east country, and from the west — From every land in which any of them may be found. But these promises principally regard the Christian Church, or the bringing in the Jews with the fulness of the Gentiles.
