Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Zechariah 9

^{1 b} Gods angre shal abide vpon their chief citie, and not spare so muche as that.

^{1 c} When the Jewes shal convert and repent then God wil destroye their enemies.

^{1 !} Whereby he meaneth Syria.

^{2 d} That is, by Damascus: meaning that Hamath or Antriochia shulde by vnder the same rod and plague.

^{2 e} He secretly sheweth the cause of their destruction because they deceiued all other by their craft, and subtiltie, which they cloked with this name of wisdome.

^{4 f} Thogh they of Tyrus thinke them selves invincible by reason of the sea, that compasseth them round about, yet they shal not escape Gods judgements.

^{6 g} Meaning, that all shulde be destroyed saue a verie fewe, that shulde remaine as strangers.

^{7 h} He promiseth to deliuer the Jewes when he shal take vengeance on their enemies for their crueltie, and wrongs done to them.

^{7 i} As the Jebusites had bene destroyed, so shulde Ekron and all the Philistims.

^{8 l} That is, God hathe now sent the great injuries and afflictions wherewith they haue bene afflicted by their enemies.

^{8 k} He sheweth that Gods power onely shalbe sufficient to defend his Church against all adversaries be thei neuer so cruel or assemble their power neuer so often.

^{9 n} Which, declareth that they shulde not loke for suche a King as shulde be glorified in the eyes of man but shulde be poore, and yet in him self haue all power to deliuer his: & this is ment of Christ, as {Mat. 21,5}

^{9 m} That is, he he hath righteousnes, and salvation in him selfe for the vse & commoditie of his Church.

^{10 q} That is, from Euphrates.

^{10 p} That it, from the red sea, to the sea called Syriacum: and by these places which the Jewes knewe, he ment an infinite space & compasse ouer the whole worlde.

^{10 o} No power of man or creature shalbe able to let this kingdome of Christ (???) he shal peaceably gouerne them by his worde.

^{11 s} God sheweth that he wil deliuer his Church out of all dangers, seme they neuer so great.

^{11 r} Meaning, Jerusalem or the Church, which is saued by the blood of Christ whereof the blood of the sacrifices was a figure, and is here called the couenant of the Church because God made it with his Church, and left it with them for the loue that he bare vnto them.

^{12 x} That is, double benefites, and prospertie in respect of that which your fathers enjoyed from Dauids time to the captiuitie.

^{12 u} Meaning, the faithful, which semed to be in danger of their enemies on euerie side, and yet liued in hope that God wolde restore them to libertie.

^{12 t} That is, into the holie land where the citie and the Temple are, where God wil defend you.

^{13 y} I wil make Judah and Ephraim, that is, my whole Church victorious against all enemies, which he here meaneth by the Grecians.

^{15 z} He promiseth that the Jewes shal destroye their enemies and haue abundance, and excesse of all things, as there is abundance on the altar when the sacrifice is offred: Which things are not to moue them to intemperancie, but to sobrietie, and a thankful rembrance of Gods great liberalitie.

^{16 a} The faithful shalbe preserved, and reuerenced of all that the verie enemies shalbe compelled to esteme them: for Gods glorie shal shine in them, as Josephus declareth of Alexander the great when he met Jadi the hie Priest.