Zechariah 2:4
The second angel said to him, “Run and speak to that young man; say, 1 'Jerusalem will sit in the open country 1 because of the multitudes of men and beasts within her. 1
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3Then the angel who had talked with me went away and another angel went out to meet him.
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Isaiah 44:26I, Yahweh, who confirmed the words of his servant and brings to pass the predictions of his messengers, 1 who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited,' and of the towns of Judah, 'They will be built again, and I will raise up their ruins'; 1
Isaiah 54:16See, I have created the craftsman, who blows the burning coals 1 and forges weapons as his work, and I have created the destroyer to destroy. 1
Jeremiah 30:18Yahweh says this, “See, I am about to bring back the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his homes. 1 Then a city will be built on the heap of ruins, and a stronghold will exist again where it used to be. 1
Jeremiah 31:27“Look, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will sow the houses of Israel and Judah with the descendants of man and beast.
Jeremiah 33:10Yahweh says this, 'In this place about which you are now saying, “It is desolate, a place with neither man nor beast,” in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate having neither man nor beast, there will be heard again
Ezekiel 36:10So I will multiply upon you the number of your people, even the whole house of Israel. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 2:2-6
The Vision of the Measuring Line. ( b. c. 520.) 1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, 4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of… Read the whole commentary →