Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of LORD concerning Israel. [Thus] says LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:
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Genesis 2:7And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Psalms 104:2who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
Psalms 136:5to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his loving kindness [is] forever,
Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 42:5Thus says God, LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth, he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it,
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 12:1
The apostle ( Gal. iv. 25, 26 ) distinguishes between "Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children"—the remaining carcase of the Jewish church that rejected Christ, and "Jerusalem that is from above, that is free, and is the mother of us all"—the Christian church, the spiritual Jerusalem, which God has chosen to put his name there; in the foregoing chapter we read the doom of the former, and left that carcase to be a prey to the eagles that should be gathered to it. Now, in this chapter, we have… Read the whole commentary →