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Zechariah 2:8-10
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8 and he said to the latter, “Run, speak to that official:[a] Jerusalem will be unwalled, because of the abundance of people and beasts in its midst.(A) 9 I will be an encircling wall of fire[b] for it—oracle of the Lord—and I will be the glory in its midst.”(B)

Expansion on the Themes of the First Three Visions. 10 Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north[c]—oracle of the Lord;—For like the four winds of heaven I have dispersed you—oracle of the Lord.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 That official: probably the man with the measuring cord of v. 5.
  2. 2:9 Encircling wall of fire: divine protection for an unwalled Jerusalem. Urban centers were generally walled, and Jerusalem’s walls were eventually rebuilt in the late fifth century B.C. (Neh 2:17–20).
  3. 2:10 Land of the north: refers to Babylon (v. 11), in a geographic rather than a political sense, as the place from which exiles will return. The designation is “north” because imperial invaders historically entered Palestine from that direction (see Jer 3:18; 23:8).
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