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.
Ver. 16. Every one that is left of all the nations] i.e. That hath escaped the plague, Zechariah 14:12, and is beaten into a better mind, as those Huns, that, vanquished by the Christians, concluded that Christ was the true God, and became his subjects. God had promised before to subvert the Church's enemies, but here to convert them, which is far better. And it shall appear to be so, as conversion cannot be hidden: you cannot turn a bell but it will make a sound, and report its own motion. See Galatians 1:23 .
For they shall even go up] sc. To the temple, which stood upon mount Moriah.
To worship the King, the Lord of hosts] To send a lamb (or a homage penny) to the Lord of the whole earth, Isaiah 16:1 .
And to keep the feast of tabernacles] In a due manner, which had not been rightly done (a marvellous thing) all along during the reign of David, Solomon, and all those succeeding reformers, till about these times, as appears, Nehemiah 8:16,18. The sense of this text is, that the converted Gentiles shall join with the Jews in the sincere service of God, according to his will, and not according to their own brains and fancies; that they shall worship him with the same rites, in the same places and assemblies which they do; that Jehovah may be one, and his name one among them, as Zechariah 14:9, that there may be no more Jew and Gentile, Barbarian or Scythian, bond or free, but Christ may be all, and in all, Colossians 3:11. That those two sticks being joined into one, Ezekiel 37:16, all Israel may be saved, Romans 11:26, and raised as from the dead, Zechariah 14:16, the Gentiles also may have their part in the same resurrection. All this is here set forth in such terms and under such types as were then most in request; as of going up to the temple, keeping the feast of tabernacles, &c., all which expressions are parabolic, symbolic, and enigmatic; framed to the capacity of the Jews, much addicted to these legal rites and shadows, then in use, but now done away, Col 2:17 Hebrews 10:1; whatever the Jews conclude from this text for their continuance under Messiah's kingdom. Christians have their feasts on holy days too, 1 Corinthians 5:8, yea, their feast of tabernacles in a mystical sense, 1Pe 2:11 Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 11:9 .