Zechariah 14:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Every one that is left; such as escape the stroke, and are by mercy reserved, very many of them, among all the nations, shall consider God's hand, repent, and submit themselves to his law; they shall, (as many did,) on sight of God's hand for the church, and against the church's enemies, convert, become proselytes and Christians. Shall even go up from year to year to worship: by a ceremonial phrase and usage, which shadowed out a better worship, the prophet foretells, the constant zeal and care the converted Gentiles should have to worship the Lord. To keep the feast of tabernacles; one solemn festival, by a figure, put for all the days consecrated to God for holy worship, and this perhaps with an eye to Christ's tabernacling with us, and may point to the Christian sabbath. Every one that is left; such as escape the stroke, and are by mercy reserved, very many of them, among all the nations, shall consider God's hand, repent, and submit themselves to his law; they shall, (as many did,) on sight of God's hand for the church, and against the church's enemies, convert, become proselytes and Christians. Shall even go up from year to year to worship: by a ceremonial phrase and usage, which shadowed out a better worship, the prophet foretells, the constant zeal and care the converted Gentiles should have to worship the Lord. To keep the feast of tabernacles; one solemn festival, by a figure, put for all the days consecrated to God for holy worship, and this perhaps with an eye to Christ's tabernacling with us, and may point to the Christian sabbath.

Zechariah 14:16

16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.