--- title: "Zechariah 10 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Zechariah 10 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the f" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/zechariah/10" --- [ Read](/kjv/zechariah/10)[ Commentary](/study/zechariah/10)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/zechariah/10) Audio 1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; *so* the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.* 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because *there was* no shepherd.** 3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.* 4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. 5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty *men*, which tread down *their enemies* in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD *is* with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.* 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I *am* the LORD their God, and will hear them. 7 And *they of* Ephraim shall be like a mighty *man*, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see *it*, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. 8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. 9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and *place* shall not be found for them. 11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD. [Zechariah 9](/study/zechariah/9) [Zechariah 11](/study/zechariah/11) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Ask ye of the Lord rain - “**Ask and ye shall receive” our Lord says. Zechariah had promised in God’s name blessings temporal and spiritual: all was ready on God’s part; only, he adds, ask them of the Lord, the Unchangeable, the Self-same not of Teraphim or of diviner, as Israel had done aforetime [Isaiah 2:5-22](/kjv/isaiah/2/5-22); [Jeremiah 44:15-28](/kjv/jeremiah/44/15-28). He had promised, “If ye shall hearken diligently unto My coramandments, to love the Lord your God, I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, and I will send grass in thy field for thy cattle” [Deuteronomy 11:13-15](/kjv/deuteronomy/11/13-15). God bids them ask Him to fulfill His promise. The “latter rain” alone is mentioned, as completing what God had begun by the former rain, filling the ears before the harvest. Both had been used as symbols of God’s spiritual gifts, and so the words fit in with the close of the last chapter, both as to things temporal and eternal. Osorius: “He exhorts all frequently to ask for the dew of the divine grace, that what had sprung up in the heart from the seed of the word of God, might attain to full ripeness.” **The Lord maketh bright clouds -**(Rather) “lightnings, into rain,” as Jeremiah says, “He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings into rain” [Jeremiah 10:13](/kjv/jeremiah/10/13); [Jeremiah 51:16](/kjv/jeremiah/51/16); and the Psalmist, “He maketh lightnings into rain” [Psalms 135:7](/kjv/psalms/135/7), disappearing as it were into the rain which follows on them. “And giveth them.” While man is asking, God is answering. “Showers of rain” , “rain in torrents,” as we should say, or “in floods,” or, inverted, “floods of rain.” “To every one grass,” rather, “the green herb, in the field,” as the Psalmist says, “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and green herb for the service of men” ([Psalms 104:14](/kjv/psalms/104/14), see also [Genesis 1:30](/kjv/genesis/1/30); [Genesis 3:18](/kjv/genesis/3/18)). This He did with individual care, as each had need, or as should be best for each, as contrariwise He says in Amos, “I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city; one piece was rained upon, and the piece, whereon it rained not, withered” ([Amos 4:7](/kjv/amos/4/7); see note). The Rabbis observed these exceptions to God’s general law, whereby He “sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” Matt. 5:49, though expressing it in their way hyperbolically; , “In the time when Israel doeth the will of God, He doeth their will; so that if one man alone, and not the others, wants rain, He will give rain to that one man; and if a man wants one herb alone in his field or garden, and not another, He will give rain to that one herb; as one of the saints used to say, This plot of ground wants rain, and that plot of ground wants not rain” (Cyril). Spiritually the rain is divine doctrine bedewing the mind and making it fruitful, as the rain doth the earth. So Moses saith, “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass” [Deuteronomy 32:2](/kjv/deuteronomy/32/2). 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