Zechariah 8:4,5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

(4-5) This promise may well be regarded as having been fulfilled to the letter in the days of Simon the Maccabee (1Ma. 14:4-15), when “the ancient men sat in all the streets... and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel,” and “every man sat under his vine and his fig-tree, and there was none to fray them.”

Zechariah 8:4-5

4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for verya age.

5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.