I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
Chapter 2 Zechariah 2:1-4 1. I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 1. Et sustuli oculos meos et vidi; et ecce vir in ejus manu funiculus mensurae. 2. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 2:1-13
One would have thought that Cyrus's proclamation, which gave liberty to the captive Jews to return to their own land, would suffice to bring them all back, and that, as when Pharaoh gave them leave to quit Egypt and their house of bondage there, they would not leave a hoof behind; but it seems it had not that effect.
Commenting on Zechariah 2:6-9
For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them,.... The nations; either the Babylonian, or the antichristian states; meaning, that he would exert his power, and inflict punishment on them, and utterly destroy them; which would be done by the bare shaking of his hand: and they shall be a spoil to their servants; as the Babylonians were to the Persians; not through Cyrus, which...