Go
Articles on

Zechariah 2

Zech. 2:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
8
For thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
; After
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
the glory
kabowd (Hebrew #3519)
from 3513; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
KJV usage: glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).
Pronounce: kaw-bode'
Origin: rarely kabod {kaw-bode'}
hath he sent
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
me unto the nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
which spoiled
shalal (Hebrew #7997)
to drop or strip; by implication, to plunder
KJV usage: let fall, make self a prey, X of purpose, (make a, (take)) spoil.
Pronounce: shaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
you: for he that toucheth
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
yout toucheth
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
the apple
babah (Hebrew #892)
something hollowed (as a gate), i.e. pupil of the eye
KJV usage: apple (of the eye).
Pronounce: baw-baw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root meaning to hollow out
of his eye
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
.
t
Deut. 32:10• 10{i}He found him in a desert land,{HR}And in the waste, howling wilderness;{HR}He compassed him about, he watched over him,{HR}He preserved him as the apple of his eye.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:10)
;
Psa. 17:8• 8Keep me as the apple of the eye;{HR}Under the shadow of thy wings thou wilt hide me, (Psa. 17:8)
;
Matt. 25:40,45• 40And the King answering shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did [it] to me.
 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of these least, ye did [it] not to me. (Matt. 25:40,45)

More on:

+
Apple of the Eye,
Glory,
Lord of Hosts,
To Spoil

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
After.
Zech. 2:4‑5• 4and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
 5for I, saith Jehovah, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. (Zech. 2:4‑5)
;
Zech. 1:15‑16• 15And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
 16Therefore thus saith Jehovah; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. (Zech. 1:15‑16)
;
Isa. 60:7‑14• 7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee; they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my magnificence.
 8Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their dovecotes?
 9Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
 10And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
 11Therefore thy gates shall be open continually (they shall not be shut day nor night); that [men] may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and [that] their kings [may be] brought.
 12For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.
 13The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
 14The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 60:7‑14)
sent.
Zech. 2:9,11• 9For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.
 11{i}And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be unto me for a people;{/i} And I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee. (Zech. 2:9,11)
;
Isa. 48:15‑16• 15I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and his way shall be prosperous.
 16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit. (Isa. 48:15‑16)
;
Mal. 3:1• 1Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:1)
;
John 14:23‑24,26• 23Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's that sent me.
 26but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things which I said to you. (John 14:23‑24,26)
;
John 15:21‑23• 21but all these things they will do unto you on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.
 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
 23He that hateth me hateth my Father also. (John 15:21‑23)
;
John 17:18• 18As thou didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world. (John 17:18)
;
1 John 4:9‑10,14• 9Herein was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
 10Herein is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent his Son [as] propitiation for our sins.
 14And we have beheld, and testify that the Father hath sent his Son as Saviour of the world. (1 John 4:9‑10,14)
the nations.
2 Kings 24:2• 2{i}And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets.{/i} (2 Kings 24:2)
;
Jer. 50:17‑18• 17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
 18Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. (Jer. 50:17‑18)
;
Jer. 51:34‑35• 34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
 35The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (Jer. 51:34‑35)
;
Ezek. 25:6‑7,12,15• 6For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
 7behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
 12Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
 15Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; (Ezek. 25:6‑7,12,15)
;
Ezek. 26:2• 2Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: (Ezek. 26:2)
;
Ezek. 35:5• 5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end; (Ezek. 35:5)
;
Joel 3:2‑8• 2I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
 3And they have cast lots {i}for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.{/i}
 4{i}Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompense? But if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I bring your recompense upon your own head;{/i}
 5{i}because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,{/i}
 6{i}and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.{/i}
 7{i}Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompense upon your own head.{/i}
 8And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: {i}for Jehovah hath spoken.{/i} (Joel 3:2‑8)
;
Amos 1:3‑5,9,11,13• 3{i}Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.{/i}
 4{i}And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.{/i}
 5{i}And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.{/i}
 9Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
 11Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
 13Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: (Amos 1:3‑5,9,11,13)
;
Obad. 10‑16• 10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
 11In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem even thou wast one of them.
 12But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
 13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.
 14Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
 15For the day of Jehovah is near on all the heathen. As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee. Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
 16For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (Obad. 10‑16)
;
Mic. 4:11• 11{i}And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion.{/i} (Mic. 4:11)
;
Mic. 5:6• 6{i}And they shall waste the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.{/i} (Mic. 5:6)
;
Mic. 7:10• 10{i}And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.{/i} (Mic. 7:10)
;
Hab. 2:8,17• 8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and all that dwell therein.
 17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. (Hab. 2:8,17)
;
Zeph. 2:8• 8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. (Zeph. 2:8)
for.
Gen. 20:6• 6{i}And God said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered thee to touch her.{/i} (Gen. 20:6)
;
Psa. 105:13‑15• 13And they walked from nation to nation,{HR}From a kingdom to another people.
 14He suffered no man to oppress them{HR}And reproved kings for their sakes,
 15[Saying] Touch not mine anointed,{HR}And do my prophets no harm. (Psa. 105:13‑15)
;
Acts 9:4• 4and falling upon the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? (Acts 9:4)
;
2 Thess. 1:6• 6if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to those who trouble you, (2 Thess. 1:6)
the apple.
Deut. 32:10• 10{i}He found him in a desert land,{HR}And in the waste, howling wilderness;{HR}He compassed him about, he watched over him,{HR}He preserved him as the apple of his eye.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:10)
;
Psa. 17:8• 8Keep me as the apple of the eye;{HR}Under the shadow of thy wings thou wilt hide me, (Psa. 17:8)
;
Matt. 25:40,45• 40And the King answering shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did [it] to me.
 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of these least, ye did [it] not to me. (Matt. 25:40,45)
• To those who understand that it is not until after the appearing of the Lord in glory that He will gather His scattered people from the four winds of heaven (Matt. 24:30-31), and thereafter judge the nations (Matt. 25:31-32), it is a beautiful example of the exactitude of Scripture. This is then the order:* after the glory, that is, after the appearing of the Lord, His manifestation to Israel, when, as we read in chapter 12:10 of this book, they will look on Him whom they had pierced, He will establish His earthly throne in Jerusalem, and He will use His people as His battle ax and weapons of war to break in pieces the nations, and to destroy kingdoms (Jer. 51:20). (“Zechariah 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
8
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After the glory, hath he sent me unto the nations that made you a spoil; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

W. Kelly Translation

+
8
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.