Zechariah 9:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

When I have bent Judah — In the day's when Judah shall be in my hand as a strong bow, already bent. Ephraim — Ephraim, the remainder of the ten tribes (which returned with Judah) shall be for a supply of warriors; as the quiver filled is a supply of arrows to the bow — man. O Greece — Against the Grecians or Ionians, who had oppressed the Jews, and bought them for slaves, against whom the Jews took arms, under the conduct of the Maccabees, to whom Christ made good much of this promise.

Zechariah 9:13

13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.