Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; saith the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
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Genesis 2:7And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, 1 And he upon nothing hangs the earth; 1
Psalms 104:2Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: 1 Tell forth all his wonderful works. 1
Psalms 136:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. 1
Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
Isaiah 42:5Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on 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 →