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.Zechariah, Book of
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and Ezekiel), but God defends Jerusalem and his king will triumphantly enter the city to bring peace among all nations. This chapter also contains a continuation of the subject in the seventh chapter.Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. '' Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible''. 1871. The part about the king's entry into Jerusalem ( verses 9 and 10) is quoted in the

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Text

The original text was written in the

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. This chapter is divided into 17 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in

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are of the

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, which includes the Codex Cairensis (from year 895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (930), and

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(1008). There is also a translation into

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known as the

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, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include

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Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

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Foreign Nations Oracles (9:1-8)

This section contains some 'wisdom influence', such as the 'eye' motif (cf. ), which 'binds the book together', in verses 1 and 8, as well as many allusions to earlier

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s including

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, Ezekiel, and

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. There is a geographic movement from north to south as the word of the Lord moves from Syria or Aram (verse 1) to Jerusalem ("my house"; verse 8).

Verse 1

:''The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach,'' ::''and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.'' :''And Hamath also shall border thereby;'' ::'' Tyrus, and

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, though it be very wise. :''And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust,'' ::''and fine gold as the mire of the streets.'' :''Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea;'' ::''and she shall be devoured with fire.'' *" Hadrach": a city-state in northern region of Syria, stretching from south of Aleppo to north of Damascus.

Verse 8

:''Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,'' ::''so that none shall march to and fro;'' :''no oppressor shall again march over them,'' ::''for now I see with my own eyes.'' *"As a guard" ( ESV;

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: "because of the army"): from Hebrew: , a

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; it can be read as (), following

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, from , , "take a stand", or (, "pillar"); bearing 'the idea of the Lord as a protector'.

King of peace (9:9–10)

This section serves as a 'linking passage', the first of several passages ( 10:1-2; 11:1-3; 11:17; and 13:7-9) which 'bind chapters 9–14 together' with some distinct characteristics: 'compact, metrical, uses opening imperatives and vocatives, and links the material that precedes and follows it'. It describes "the king of peace", drawn partly from 'Jacob's blessing of Judah' () and partly from .

Verse 9

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: ''Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion;'' :: ''shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:'' : ''behold, thy King cometh unto thee:'' :: ''he is just, and having salvation; : ''lowly, and riding upon an ass,'' :: '' and upon a colt the foal of an ass.'' *"Ass" (KJV; NRSV: "donkey") and "colt": point to one animal in the 'style of Hebrew parallelism' (cf. ; ), indicating 'peaceful intentions', in contrast to "horse" (or "war-horse") in verse 10.

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authors see this verse as a prophecy to

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...

'

triumphal entry into Jerusalem In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem took place in the days before the Last Supper, marking the beginning of his Passion, his time of suffering, death, and resurrection celebrated during H ...

on

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as quoted in ; ).

Verse 10

: ''And 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.'' KJV *"The river": points to the

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in northern Syria.

God will save his people (9:11–17)

This part pictures God as a warrior who brings 'ultimate victory to his oppressed people against the Greeks'.

Uses

Music

The

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of verses 9–10 from this chapter are cited as texts in the English-language

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"

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" by George Frideric Handel (HWV 56).

Notes

References

Sources

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External links

Jewish

Zechariah 9 Hebrew with Parallel EnglishZechariah 9 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

Zechariah 9 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate
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