Zechariah 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the LORD of hosts. See note on Zechariah 1:3.

After the glory. For His own glory.

he that, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:10). App-92.

His eye. The primitive text read "Mine eye"; but the Sopherim say (App-33) that they altered this to "His", regarding it as derogatory to Jehovah to rend aloud such pronounced anthropomorphic expressions.

Zechariah 2:8

8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.