Zechariah 12:1
The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.
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Genesis 2:7And Jehovah God formeth the man — dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
Job 26:7Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon 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 to the age [is] His kindness.
Isaiah 40:12Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 42:5Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing 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 →