And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
And I will cut off the chariot ... and the horse ... and the battle-bow shall be cut off - (Isaiah 2:4; Hosea 2:18; Micah 5:10, to whose language Zechariah seems here to allude).
From Ephraim ... Jerusalem - the kingdom of the ten tribes, and that of Judah and Benjamin; both alike to be restored hereafter.
And he shall speak peace - command it authoritatively. A mere word from Him, enough to produce instantaneous and universal "peace" (Matthew 8:8). And his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth - fulfilling Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; and Psalms 57:8. "Sea ... sea," are, from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The "river" is the Euphrates. Solomon's kingdom, extending "from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt" (1 Kings 4:21), was an earnest and type of Messiah's universal dominion. Jerusalem and the Holy Land, extended to the limits promised to Abraham, are to be the center of His future dominion; whence it will extend to the remotest parts of the earth.