Zechariah 9:14

"For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have loaded the bow with Ephraim. I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man."

Key Reflection

In Zechariah 9:14, God compares Judah to a bow and Ephraim to arrows, indicating His power and readiness to use the people of Israel as instruments of His will. By stirring up conflict between Zion's sons and Greece, He prepares them for significant action, symbolizing divine judgment and purpose through warfare.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And the Lord shall be seen over them -o“He will reveal himself,” protecting them. Cyril: “He says plainly, that the Lord God will be with them and will fight in serried array with them and will with them subdue those who resist them.” It is as if he would say, “When they go forth and preach everywhere, the Lord shall work with them and confirm the word with signs following”Mark 16:20. “And His arrow shall go forth as the lightning.” Habakkuk directly calls the lightnings the arrows of God: “at the light of Thine arrows they went” . Here it is probably of an invisible agency, and so compared to that awful symbol of His presence, the lightning.

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