Zechariah 9:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The use of. varied vocabulary is no proof of. different authorship. It is necessitated by the changes of subject.

burden. Divine declaration. Hebrew. massa'. Compare Isaiah 13:1.Nahum 1:1.

of. that is to say. Genitive of Apposition. See App-17.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

in: or, on: i.e. resting on.

Hadrach.. country in the neighborhood of Damascus and Hamath (Zechariah 9:2) &c., mentioned in the Assyrian Inscriptions, with the 'arka of Genesis 10:17.

the rest thereof. its resting place: i.e. the burden will rest upon it.

Zechariah 9:1

1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.