Zechariah 8:8

"The LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country."

Key Reflection

This verse signifies that God's salvation extends beyond geographical boundaries, encompassing both the diaspora in the east (likely referring to regions like Babylon) and those in the west. It emphasizes God’s inclusive salvific intent, reaching out to all scattered Israelites regardless of their location.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem -Not the literal Jerusalem; for this would not contain the Jews from all quarters of the world, whom, as they multiplied, the whole land could not contain; but the promised Jerusalem, the Jerusalem, which “should be inhabited as towns without walls,” to which the Lord should be a wall of fire round about.

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