Zechariah 12:1
The burden of a word of YHWH on Israel. A declaration of YHWH, || Stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, || And forming the spirit of man in his midst:
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Genesis 2:7And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.
Job 26:7Stretching out the north over desolation, || Hanging the earth on nothing,
Psalms 104:2Covering Himself [with] light as a garment, || Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,
Psalms 136:5To Him making the heavens by understanding, || For His kindness [is] for all time.
Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, || And has meted out the heavens by a span, || And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, || And has weighed the mountains in scales, || And the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 42:5Thus said God, YHWH, || Creating the heavens, and stretching them out, || Spreading out the earth and its productions, || Giving breath to the people on it, || And spirit to those walking 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 →