These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Chapter 8 Lecture One Hundred and forty-eighth Zechariah 8:1, 2 1. Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 1. Et fuit sermo Jehovae exercituum, dicendo, — 2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 8:1-23
God, by the prophet, here gives further assurances of the mercy he had in store for Judah and Jerusalem. Here is line upon line for their comfort, as before there was for their conviction. These verses contain strong encouragements with reference to the difficulties they now laboured under. And we may observe, I.
Commenting on Zechariah 8:9-17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour,.... See Gill on Zac 7:10 hatred without a cause was a governing vice under the second temple, and Jarchi says was the cause of the destruction of it; see Joh 15:25, and love no false oath; whereby the character and property of a fellow creature are hurt; nor any vain one, which...