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Zechariah 9:12 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 9 · verse 12
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;Zechariah 9:12 · King James Version
Zechariah 9:12 in context
10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
13When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
14And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
Commentary
Cross references
- Job 42:10
- Isaiah 61:7
- Lamentations 3:21-22
- Hebrews 6:18
- Jeremiah 31:17
- Isaiah 40:2
- Jeremiah 51:10
- Nahum 1:7
Key words (Strong's)
- prisonersʼâçîyrboundH615 →
- declarenâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- Turnshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- holdbitstsârôwna fortressH1225 →
- hopetiqvâhliterally a cordH8615 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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The prophet, having taught those that had returned out of captivity to attribute their deliverance to the blood of the covenant and to the promise of the Messiah (for they were so wonderfully helped because that blessing was in them, was yet in the womb of their nation), now comes to encourage them with the prospect…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-17