--- title: "Zechariah 12 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Zechariah 12 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth t" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/zechariah/12" --- [ Read](/kjv/zechariah/12)[ Commentary](/study/zechariah/12)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/zechariah/12) Audio 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah *and* against Jerusalem.** 3 ¶ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem *shall be* my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.* 6 ¶ In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, *even* in Jerusalem. 7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify *themselves* against Judah. 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David *shall be* as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.* 9 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, *that* I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 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. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;* 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;* 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. [Zechariah 11](/study/zechariah/11) [Zechariah 13](/study/zechariah/13) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Zec 12:1](/kjv/zec/12/1) The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Ver. 1. **The burden of the word of the Lord** ] That is, a declaration of his mind and counsel for Israel’s comfort and his enemies’ confusion. To the Israel of God it is *onus sine onere,* such a burden as the wings are to the bird, a burdenless burden. To the enemies, a burdensome stone, [Zechariah 12:3](/kjv/zechariah/12/3) , heavier than the sand of the sea, [Job 6:3](/kjv/job/6/3) . **** **For Israel** ] Not against Israel, though Calvin so taketh it; and by Israel understandeth the ten tribes, and those other captives that, loth to leave those houses they had built and those gardens they had planted in Babylon, [Jeremiah 29:5](/kjv/jeremiah/29/5) , neglected to return to Jerusalem for fear of the Samaritans and other ill neighbours; whose ruin is therefore here foretold by three excellent similitudes, after a stately preamble, drawn, 1. From the power of God, whereby he stretcheth forth the heavens, [Job 37:18](/kjv/job/37/18) ; [Job 26:7](/kjv/job/26/7) , that huge expanse, as a curtain, or as a molten looking glass. 2. From the wisdom of God, in laying the foundation of the earth, and hanging it, by geometry, as we say, in the midst of heaven, like Archimedes’ pigeon, equally poised with its own weight. “ *Terra pilae similis, nullo fulcimine nixa,* Acre subiecto tam grave pendet onus. ” (Ovid. Fast. l. 6.) 3. From the goodness of God, ****** ***who formeth the spirit of man within him*** *] Who hath made us these souls, [Isaiah 57:16](/kjv/isaiah/57/16)* *, which he doth daily create and infuse into men’s bodies; yea, and that alone, without any help of their parents: hence he is called "the Father of spirits," [Hebrews 12:9](/kjv/hebrews/12/9)* *, and the spirit of a dying man is said to return to God that gave it, [Ecclesiastes 12:7](/kjv/ecclesiastes/12/7)* *. This last text convinced Augustine (who held sometime, with Origen, that the soul as well as the body was begotten by the parents) far more than the peremptory rashness of Vincentius Victor; who censured boldly the father’s unresolvedness (when he doubted concerning the original of a rational soul), and vaunted that he would prove by demonstration that souls are created de novo,* by God. Aristotle, Nature’s chief secretary, was much puzzled about this point of the soul; which, indeed, cannot fully be conceived of nor defined by man. 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