Zechariah 8:21

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Zechariah 8:21

A Call to Worship April 20, 1873 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) “And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Hosts: I will go also.” Zechariah 8:21 . This prophecy may relate to the Jews, literally, and it is referred to by their learned doctors as to the days of the Messiah. We believe, also, that it refers to the days of the Messiah and we look for times when again the Holy Land shall be fully inhabited... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Zechariah 8:1-23

Chapter 8Now again the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called A city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, The holy mountain ( Zechariah 8:1-3 ).So this is a promise of the future age when God will return, when Jesus comes and establishes His kingdom... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 8:1-23

Zechariah 8:2 . I was jealous for Zion with great fury, to purge her sins, and with great compassion and special mercy to bring back her children and restore her temple. What other nation, overrun and destroyed by the Chaldeans, were made like her the equal heirs of grace? Zechariah 8:3 . Thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in Jerusalem a city of truth, the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. To this day, Jerusalem is called the holy city in all the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 8:20-22

Zechariah 8:20-22Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord Nations meeting for prayerA scene like this has never yet been witnessed upon the earth.The prophecy was partially fulfilled when, from the time of the rebuilding of the temple to the coming of the Saviour, a more than usual number of Gentile proselytes from the nations around sought admission into the Jewish Church, and attended the annual festivals.I. The object of this gathering of the nations. “To pray.” The time is coming when the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Zechariah 8:21

Zec 8:21 And the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. Ver. 21. And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another ] Not only come upon them when they light on them, and they have a fit opportunity, but they shall go on purpose, one city to another, to gain them to Christ. Propriissimum opus viventis est generare sibi simile, saith the philosopher, It is the most proper work of every... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Zechariah 8:21

Let: Psalms 122:1-1 Samuel : speedily: or, continually, Heb. going, Hosea 6:3 pray before the Lord: Heb. intreat the face of the Lord, Zechariah 7:2 I will: Psalms 103:22, Psalms 146:1, Psalms 146:2 Reciprocal: Numbers 10:29 - come 2 Chronicles 15:9 - they saw Song of Solomon 6:1 - that Jeremiah 50:4 - seek the Ezekiel 47:9 - a very great Zechariah 9:1 - when John 1:37 - and they Revelation 22:17 - let him that heareth read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Zechariah 8:21

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.I will go also — The invited, shall with as much zeal embrace the motion, as others made it. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 8:1-23

RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL AND CEREMONIAL REQUIREMENTS, Zechariah 7:1 to Zechariah 8:23. After a silence of nearly two years the voice of Zechariah was heard again. In the fourth year of Darius a deputation came to the prophet inquiring whether the observance of the fasts instituted to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem was still obligatory (Zechariah 7:1-3). This question would suggest itself to many as the temple neared completion, and as the seventy years since the destruction of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 8:18-23

Zechariah 8:18 is identical with Zechariah 8:1. 19. The fast of the fourth month The fast kept in commemoration of the capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar on the ninth day of the fourth month (Jeremiah 39:2; Jeremiah 52:7). Fifth… seventh See on Zechariah 7:4. Tenth A fast held to commemorate the beginning of the siege on the tenth day of the tenth month (Jeremiah 39:1; 2 Kings 25:1). Joy… gladness,… cheerful feasts The seasons commemorating the darkest events of Jewish history... read more

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