Zechariah 8:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 8 The restoration of Jerusalem, Malachi 8:1-8. The people are encouraged to build the temple by a promise of God's blessing, Malachi 8:9-15. Truth and justice required of them, Malachi 8:16,17. Joy and enlargement of the church promised, Malachi 8:18-23. Again, or And, Heb.; as the word of reproof in the former chapter, so the word of consolation in this chapter, was from God. The Lord of hosts: hereby God assureth the Jews that what he promiseth he can perform, and therefore in this chapter, where so many things, so great, are promised, this name is very many times repeated, viz. eighteen.

Zechariah 8:1

1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,