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Zechariah 9:11
11As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Zechariah 9:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
- English Standard Version (ESV)As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Because of the covenant I made with you, sealed with blood, I will free your prisoners from death in a waterless dungeon.
Context of Zechariah 9:11
9Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. 12Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. 13I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.
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גַּם־אַ֣תְּ בְּדַם־בְּרִיתֵ֗ךְ שִׁלַּ֤חְתִּי אֲסִירַ֙יִךְ֙ מִבּ֔וֹר אֵ֥ין מַ֖יִם בּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Zechariah 9:11
- Deuteronomy 5:31But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”
- 2 Samuel 13:13What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:17“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,
- Daniel 2:29“As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen.
- Exodus 24:8Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
- Matthew 26:28This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- Mark 14:24“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them.
- Luke 22:20In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
- 1 Corinthians 11:25In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
- Hebrews 9:10They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
- Hebrews 10:29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- Psalms 69:33The Lord hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.
- Psalms 102:19“The Lord looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
- Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,
- Isaiah 42:7to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
Commentaries on Zechariah 9:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11As for thee also (Jerusalem) by the blood of thy covenant - The covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the Israelites in general, and ratified by the blood of many victims; until the time should come in which the Messiah should shed his blood, as typified by the ancient sacrifices. I have sent forth thy prisoners - Those who were under the arrest of God's judgments; the human race, fast bound in sin and misery, and who by the pitifulness of his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11As for thee also - The prophet turns from the deliverance of the whole world to the former people, the sorrows which they should have in the way, and the protection which God would bestow upon them for the sake of Him, who, according to the flesh, was to be born of them. “Thou too;” he had spoken of the glories of the Church, such as her king, when He should come, should extend it, embracing earth‘s remotest bounds: he turns to her, Israel after the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 The prophet breaks forth into a joyful representation of the coming of the Messiah, of whom the ancient Jews explained this prophecy. He took the character of their King, when he entered Jerusalem amidst the hosannas of the multitude. But his kingdom is a spiritual kingdom. It shall not be advanced by outward force or carnal weapons. His gospel shall be preached to the world, and be received among the heathen. A sinful state is a state of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11The covenant sealed with blood most likely refers to the sacrifice involving blood that confirmed the Mosaic covenant (the agreement God made with Israel at Mount Sinai, Exodus 24:8). The prisoners were Jews still living as exiles in Mesopotamia after the exile in Babylon. The Jews who stayed in Persia and Babylon were spiritual exiles because they lived outside the promised land of spiritual blessing and rest (see Deuteronomy 12:10). One of the Messiah’s…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. 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…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Zechariah 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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