Zakharia 9:6
Konteks9:6 A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.
Zakharia 9:8
Konteks9:8 Then I will surround my temple 1 to protect it like a guard 2 from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.
[9:8] 1 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
[9:8] 2 tn Though a hapax legomenon, the מִצָּבָה (mitsavah) of the MT (from נָצַב, natsav, “take a stand”) is preferable to the suggestion מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”) or even מִצָּבָא (mitsava’, “from” or “against the army”). The context favors the idea of the