Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion: shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee: [a]he is just, and saved himself, poor and riding upon an [b]ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

10 And I will cut off the [c]chariots from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem: the bow of the battle shall be broken, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen, and his dominion shall be from [d]sea unto sea, and from the [e]River to the end of the land.

11 [f]Thou also shall be saved through the blood of thy covenant. I have loosed thy [g]prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:9 That is, he hath righteousness and salvation in himself for the use and commodity of his Church.
  2. Zechariah 9:9 Which declareth that they should not look for such a king as should be glorious in the eyes of man, but should be poor, and yet in himself have all power to deliver his: and this is meant of Christ, as Matt. 21:5.
  3. Zechariah 9:10 No power of man or creature shall be able to let this kingdom of Christ, and he shall peaceably govern them by his word.
  4. Zechariah 9:10 That is, from the red sea, to the sea, called Syriacum: and by these places which the Jews knew, he meant an infinite space and compass over the whole world.
  5. Zechariah 9:10 That is, from Euphrates.
  6. Zechariah 9:11 Meaning, Jerusalem, or the Church which is saved by the blood of Christ whereof the blood of the sacrifices was a figure, and is here called the covenant of the Church, because God made it with his Church: and left it with them for the love that he bare unto them.
  7. Zechariah 9:11 God showeth that he will deliver his Church out of all dangers, seem they never so great.

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