11. As for thee also--that is, the daughter of Zion," or "Jerusalem"
(Zec 9:9):
the theocracy. The "thee also," in contradistinction to Messiah
spoken of in
Zec 9:10,
implies that besides cutting off the battle-bow and extending
MESSIAH'S "dominion to the ends of the earth," God
would also deliver for her her exiled people from
their foreign captivity.
by the blood of thy covenant--that is, according to the covenant
vouchsafed to thee on Sinai, and ratified by the blood of sacrifices
(Ex 24:8;
Heb 9:18-20).
pit wherein . . . no water--Dungeons were often pits without water,
miry at the bottom, such as Jeremiah sank in when confined
(Ge 37:24;
Jer 38:6).
An image of the misery of the Jewish exiles in Egypt, Greece, &c.,
under the successors of Alexander, especially under Antiochus
Epiphanes, who robbed and profaned the temple, slew thousands, and
enslaved more. God delivered them by the Maccabees. A type of the
future deliverance from their last great persecutor hereafter
(Isa 51:14; 60:1).
JFB.
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