Teks -- Zechariah 8:1-2 (NET)

The Blessing of True Fasting

8:1 Then the word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows: 8:2 “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘I am very much concerned for Zion; indeed, I am so concerned for her that my rage will fall on those who hurt her.’

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Wesley: Zec 8:2 - Jealousy

With great care that she should not, as formerly, sin against my love, and her own welfare, and with a great desire to do her good, and to rescue her from her enemies.

Wesley: Zec 8:2 - Fury

With heat of anger against her enemies.

JFB: Zec 8:2 - jealous for Zion

(Zec 1:14).

JFB: Zec 8:2 - with great fury

Against her oppressors.

Clarke: Zec 8:2 - I was jealous

I was jealous - Some refer this to the Jews themselves. They were as the spouse of Jehovah: but they were unfaithful, and God punished them as an injured husband might be expected to punish an unfaithful wife. Others apply it to the enemies of the Jews. Though I gave them a commission to afflict you, yet they exceeded their commission: I will therefore deal with them in fury - in vindictive justice.

Calvin: Zec 8:1 - NO PHRASE

Some think that at the beginning of this chapter the people are reproved for their unfaithfulness, because they conducted themselves towards God in a way they ought not to have done, as they had violated that sacred marriage which God had been pleased to contract with them; for it is a common mode of speaking for God to compare himself to jealous husbands, when he sees his Church dealing with him unfaithfully. But this meaning is inadmissible: for the verb קנא , kona, connected as it is here, is to be taken in a good sense, as signifying concern or affection, inasmuch as ל , lamed, means, “on account of,” or “for;” and we have in the first chapter a similar sentence; Zec 1:1 and it is evident that in many other places the meaning is no other, but that God burned with wrath against all the enemies of his Church, as he regarded his Church with singular love. Emulation then here does not mean jealousy, but is to be taken in a different sense, as signifying that concern which God had for the protection of his Church. The whole then of this chapter proves that God would be the defender of his people, and that such was his care for the safety of all the godly, that he resolved to oppose the whole world, if necessary, for their protection. This is the sum of the whole.

Calvin: Zec 8:2 - NO PHRASE

He then says, that the word of Jehovah came to him; ⁷⁸ we hence learn, that this was a distinct prophecy. He adds, I have been zealous for Sion (for as we have said, the letter ל , lamed, is to be thus taken) with great zeal ⁷⁹ This was indeed an incredible change, for God had for a time restrained himself, while the ungodly at their pleasure harassed the Church, so that they thought that they could do so with impunity. As God then had for some time remained at rest, what the Prophet says here could not have been easily believed, that is, that God would, through a sudden jealousy, undertake the cause of the Church. Hence the indignation, immediately subjoined, must be regarded with reference to enemies, as though he had said, that all the ungodly would now perceive what they had by no means expected, — that God was the protector of Jerusalem. It now follows —

TSK: Zec 8:2 - I was jealous

I was jealous : Zec 1:14-16; Psa 78:58, Psa 78:59; Isa 42:13, Isa 42:14, Isa 59:17, Isa 63:4-6, Isa 63:15; Eze 36:5, Eze 36:6; Joe 2:18; Nah 1:2, Nah 1:6

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Poole: Zec 8:1 - Again // The Lord of hosts

Again or And , Heb.; as the word of reproof in the former chapter, so the word of consolation in this chapter, was from God.

The Lord of hosts: hereby God assureth the Jews that what he promiseth he can perform, and therefore in this chapter, where so many things, so great, are promised, this name is very many times repeated, viz. eighteen.

Poole: Zec 8:2 - I was // Jealous for Zion // With great jealousy // I was jealous for her // With great fury

I was I have been in time past, in days of old before the captivity, and I have been so since the captivity for some years past.

Jealous for Zion: properly it is the passion of a lover or husband, mixed of love, care, and anger in their highest degrees for the beloved, and against all that is hurtful to it; so God had greatly loved Zion, had been careful of her honour and welfare, and displeased with her sins, which first hurt her, and then with the Chaldeans, which violated her.

With great jealousy with great care that she should not, as formerly, sin against my love and her own welfare, and with a great love to do her good now, and to rescue her from her enemies.

I was jealous for her on her behalf, and not as formerly against her, I am jealous in favour to her, as the Hebrew phrase importeth.

With great fury with heat of anger against her enemies, as Zec 1:14,15 , See Poole "Zec 1:14" , See Poole "Zec 1:15" .

Haydock: Zec 8:1 - Blessing

Blessing. As the nations could wish no greater curse than what you have experienced, so you shall now be regarded as a most happy people.

Haydock: Zec 8:2 - Jealous for her

Jealous for her, treating her as a spouse, (Calmet) and not neglecting her as one incorrigible. (Haydock)

Gill: Zec 8:1 - Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me saying.

Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me saying. The phrase, "to me", is wanting in the Hebrew text; and is the only place it is wanting in, as the Masora observes; though undoubtedly it is to be understood; and therefore is rightly supplied, as it is by the Targum, "with me". Mention being made in the latter part of the preceding chapter Zec 7:8 of the desolations of the earth, comfort is here administered, as Aben Ezra notes.

Gill: Zec 8:2 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts // I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy // and I was jealous for her with great fury

Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... This prophecy, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, respects time to come; the days of the Messiah, in the war of Gog and Magog, when they shall come up against Jerusalem, and the Lord shall pour out his great wrath upon them; and it seems right to interpret it, not only literally of Jerusalem, but spiritually of the church in Gospel times:

I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy; the Arabic version reads, "for Jerusalem, and for Zion"; as in Zec 1:14; see Gill on Zec 1:14,

and I was jealous for her with great fury: that is, against her enemies; the Babylonians and Chaldeans now, and the antichristian powers in Gospel times. The Targum paraphrases it, "against the people that provoked her to jealousy"; the past tense is put for the future, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe.