translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEC

label: NET study note

text: That is, to Zechariah.


text: These are the scattered Jews of eschatological times (as the expression four winds of heaven makes clear) and not those of Zechariah’s time who have, for the most part, already returned by 520 b.c . This theme continues and is reinforced in vv. 10-13 .


text: This individualizing of Zion as a daughter draws attention to the corporate nature of the covenant community and also to the tenderness with which the Lord regards his chosen people.


text: The sense here is that God in heaven is about to undertake an occupation of his earthly realm (v. 12 ) by restoring his people to the promised land.