In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
In that day will I make the governors of Judah. On "governors of Judah" see note, Zechariah 9:7.
Like an hearth of fire among the wood - "hearth," or pan.
And like a torch of fire in a sheaf - though small, it shall consume the many foes around. One prophet supplements the other. Thus Isaiah 29:1-24; Joel 3:1, and Zechariah 12:1-14; Zechariah 13:1-9; Zechariah 14:1-21, describe more Antichrist's army than himself. Daniel (Daniel 7:8) represents him as a little horn growing out of the fourth beast or fourth kingdom; John (Revelation 13:1-18) as a separate beast, having an individual existence. Daniel dwells on his worldly conquests as a king; John more on his spiritual tyranny, whence he adds a second beast-namely, the false prophet coming in a semblance of spirituality (Revelation 16:13). What is briefly described by one is more fully prophesied by the other (Rosseau).