10:10This pictured return from Egypt and Assyria was a symbolic way of saying that the people would be returned from all the countries where they had been dispersed. Egypt and Assyria evoked memories of slavery and separation.
Life Application Study BibleZechariahChapter 10
Zechariah 10
New Living Translation · Life Application Study Bible · Original pages: 1512, 1513
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10Zechariah 10
1so every field becomes a lush pasture.
2Household gods give worthless advice,fortune-tellers predict only lies,and interpreters of dreams pronouncefalsehoods that give no comfort.So my people are wandering like lost sheep;they are attacked because they have no shepherd.
3“My anger burns against your shepherds,and I will punish these leaders.*For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has arrivedto look after Judah, his flock.He will make them strong and glorious,like a proud warhorse in battle.
4From Judah will come the cornerstone,the tent peg,the bow for battle,and all the rulers.
5They will be like mighty warriors in battle,trampling their enemies in the mud under their feet.Since the LORD is with them as they fight,they will overthrow even the enemy's horsemen.
6“J will strengthen Judah and save Israel*; 10:6 I will restore them because of my compassion. Isa 54:8
It will be as though I had never rejected them,for 1am the LORD their God, who will hear their cries,
7The people of Israel* will become like mighty warriors,and their hearts will be made happy as if by wine.Their children, too, will see it and be glad;their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
8When I whistle to them, they will come running,for I have redeemed them.From the few who are left,they will grow as numerous as they were before.8 Though I have scattered them like seeds among the nations,they will still remember me in distant lands..They and their children will surviveand return again to Israel.
10J will bring them back from Egyptand gather them from Assyria.I will resettle them in Gilead and Lebanonuntil there is no more room for them all.
11They will pass safely through the sea of distress,*for the waves of the sea will be held back,and the waters of the Nile will dry up.The pride of Assyria will be crushed,and the rule of Egypt will end.
12By my power* I will make my people strong,and by my authority they will go wherever they wish.I, the LORD, have spoken!”1 1 1 Open your doors, Lebanon,
Textual footnotes
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- 9:14-17 After Solomon's reign, the kingdom was divided into the _first coming, called Christ the “cornerstone” (see also Isaiah
- northern kingdom (called Israel or Ephraim) and the southern king- 28:16), the “tent peg” (Isaiah 22:23), the “bow for battle,” and
- dom (called Judah, with Jerusalem as the capital). This prophecy a ruler who was a man of action (see also Genesis 49:10; Micah
- says that all Israel, north and south, will someday be reunited. The 5:2). This Messiah would be strong, stable, victorious, and trust-
- first part of this chapter tells how God will help his people avoid worthy—in all ways, the answer to Israel's problems. Only in the
- war: here God explains that he will come to help his people when Messiah will all the promises to God's people be fulfilled.
- war is inevitable. Verses 14-16 explain how the Jews will win over 40:6 Judah refers to the southern kingdom, and Israel refers to
- the Greeks, but it is also a figurative picture of the ultimate future the northern kingdom. One day God will unite all his people. This
- victory over evil by God’s people. verse tells about God’s reuniting of the Jews (see also Jeremiah
- and then we expect them to give us happiness and security. But dom of srael were so completely absorbed into other cultures after
- these idols can’t supply what we need any more than a stone image _ their captivity in 722 B.C. that a regathering could only be accom-
- can make it rain. How foolish it is to trust in idols. Instead, trust plished by God.
- God's promises for your future. 10:6, 12 God promises to strengthen his people. When we stay
- 10:2 We often create idols of money, power, fame, or success, 31:10). This was a startling idea. The people of the northern king-
- 10:3 Or these male goats.
- 10:4 Zechariah’s prophecy, more than 500 years before Christ's closely connected to God, his Spirit will enable us to do his will,
- 10:6 Hebrew save the house of Joseph.
- 10:7 Hebrew of Ephraim.
- 10:12 Hebrew in the LORD.
Life Application Notes 3 notes
10:11Or the sea of Egypt, reterring to the Red Sea. despite the obstacles. When we stray away from God, we will be cut off from our power source.
10:11The “sea of distress” refers to the Red Sea, through which the Israelites were miraculously delivered from Egypt. As the Israelites returned once again from Egypt and other lands, they would be protected by God’s miraculous power.