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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Zechariah 12 This chapter contains a prophecy of the defence, protection, and salvation of the church of God; and of the effusion of the Spirit; and of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day. It begins with a title and preface, describing the power of God, from the creation of the heavens and earth, and soul of man, Zechariah 12:1 then follows the subject matter of the...
John Gill
And the land shall mourn,.... That is, the inhabitants of it; not only Jerusalem, but the land of Judea, and the people in it everywhere: in the Talmud (o) it is said, this is the mourning of the Messiah, that is, on his account: every family apart; though the mourning will be general and public, yet it will be not in a body of the whole people together, but separate and distinct: the family of...
Matthew Henry
The apostle (Gal. iv. 25, 26) distinguishes between "Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children"—the remaining carcase of the Jewish church that rejected Christ, and "Jerusalem that is from above, that is free, and is the mother of us all"—the Christian church, the spiritual Jerusalem, which God has chosen to put his name there; in the foregoing chapter we read the doom of the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; For this was to be a personal sorrow, in which both husbands and wives must weep on their own account. Zec_12:12. The family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; Perhaps these names are mentioned to indicate different classes and orders of persons; — the family of the house...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And the land shalt mourn, every family apart; There shall be universal mourning throughout the whole land; yet it shall be special and particular to each household: “every family apart.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
The family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. True repentance is the distinct act of each individual. It cannot as a rule be...