Zechariah 12:7

"In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem."

Key Reflection

In Zechariah 12:7, "in that day" refers to a future time of divine intervention where Judah's leaders, once feeble and weak, will be transformed into instruments of God’s judgment, consuming their enemies on both sides while establishing Jerusalem securely as the center of divine presence. This imagery depicts a dramatic shift from weakness to power under divine guidance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first -Still it is, ‘the Lord shall save.’ We have, on the one side, the ‘siege,’ the gathering of all the peoples of the earth ‘against Jerusalem, the horse and his rider.’ On the other, no human strength; not, as before, in the prophecy of the Maccabees, the bow, the arrow, and the sword, though in the hand of GodZechariah 9:13. It is thrice, ‘I will make’Zechariah 9:2-3,; ‘I will smite’ (Zechariah 9:4bis); and now, ‘The Lord shall save.’ By ‘the tents,’ he probably indicates their defenselessness.

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