translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEC

label: NET study note

text: The immediate referent of peace about the northland is to the peace brought by Persia’s conquest of Babylonia, a peace that allowed the restoration of the Jewish people (cf. 2 Chr 36:22-23 ; Isa 44:28; 45:1-2 ). However, there is also an eschatological dimension, referring to a time when there will be perfect and universal peace.


text: Except for Joshua (v. 11 ) none of these individuals is otherwise mentioned and therefore they cannot be further identified.


text: The priest here in the immediate context is Joshua but the fuller and more distant allusion is to the Messiah, a ruling priest. The notion of the ruler as a priest-king was already apparent in David and his successors ( Pss 2:2, 6-8; 110:2, 4 ), and it finds mature expression in David’s greater Son, Jesus Christ, who will combine both offices in his kingship ( Heb 5:1-10; 7:1-25 ).


text: Those who are far away is probably a reference to later groups of returning exiles under Ezra, Nehemiah, and others.