Geneva Bible Notes: Zechariah 9

Zechariah 9:1 (b) Gods angre shal abide vpon their chief citie, and not spare so muche as that.

Zechariah 9:1 (c) When the Jewes shal convert and repent then God wil destroye their enemies.

Zechariah 9:1 (!) Whereby he meaneth Syria.

Zechariah 9:2 (d) That is, by Damascus: meaning that Hamath or Antriochia shulde by vnder the same rod and plague.

Zechariah 9:2 (e) He secretly sheweth the cause of their destruction because they deceiued all other by their craft, and subtiltie, which they cloked with this name of wisdome.

Zechariah 9:4 (f) Thogh they of Tyrus thinke them selves invincible by reason of the sea, that compasseth them round about, yet they shal not escape Gods judgements.

Zechariah 9:6 (g) Meaning, that all shulde be destroyed saue a verie fewe, that shulde remaine as strangers.

Zechariah 9:7 (h) He promiseth to deliuer the Jewes when he shal take vengeance on their enemies for their crueltie, and wrongs done to them.

Zechariah 9:7 (i) As the Jebusites had bene destroyed, so shulde Ekron and all the Philistims.

Zechariah 9:8 (l) That is, God hathe now sent the great injuries and afflictions wherewith they haue bene afflicted by their enemies.

Zechariah 9:8 (k) He sheweth that Gods power onely shalbe sufficient to defend his Church against all adversaries be thei neuer so cruel or assemble their power neuer so often.

Zechariah 9:9 (n) Which, declareth that they shulde not loke for suche a King as shulde be glorified in the eyes of man but shulde be poore, and yet in him self haue all power to deliuer his: & this is ment of Christ, as {Mat. 21,5}

Zechariah 9:9 (m) That is, he he hath righteousnes, and salvation in him selfe for the vse & commoditie of his Church.

Zechariah 9:10 (q) That is, from Euphrates.

Zechariah 9:10 (p) That it, from the red sea, to the sea called Syriacum: and by these places which the Jewes knewe, he ment an infinite space & compasse ouer the whole worlde.

Zechariah 9:10 (o) No power of man or creature shalbe able to let this kingdome of Christ (???) he shal peaceably gouerne them by his worde.

Zechariah 9:11 (s) God sheweth that he wil deliuer his Church out of all dangers, seme they neuer so great.

Zechariah 9:11 (r) Meaning, Jerusalem or the Church, which is saued by the blood of Christ whereof the blood of the sacrifices was a figure, and is here called the couenant of the Church because God made it with his Church, and left it with them for the loue that he bare vnto them.

Zechariah 9:12 (x) That is, double benefites, and prospertie in respect of that which your fathers enjoyed from Dauids time to the captiuitie.

Zechariah 9:12 (u) Meaning, the faithful, which semed to be in danger of their enemies on euerie side, and yet liued in hope that God wolde restore them to libertie.

Zechariah 9:12 (t) That is, into the holie land where the citie and the Temple are, where God wil defend you.

Zechariah 9:13 (y) I wil make Judah and Ephraim, that is, my whole Church victorious against all enemies, which he here meaneth by the Grecians.

Zechariah 9:15 (z) He promiseth that the Jewes shal destroye their enemies and haue abundance, and excesse of all things, as there is abundance on the altar when the sacrifice is offred: Which things are not to moue them to intemperancie, but to sobrietie, and a thankful rembrance of Gods great liberalitie.

Zechariah 9:16 (a) The faithful shalbe preserved, and reuerenced of all that the verie enemies shalbe compelled to esteme them: for Gods glorie shal shine in them, as Josephus declareth of Alexander the great when he met Jadi the hie Priest.