Zechariah 2:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

Zechariah 2:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 1:17
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 32:9
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Jeremiah 10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Psalms 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Jeremiah 51:19
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-13)

Here is, I. Joy proclaimed to the church of God, to the daughter of Zion, that had separated herself from the daughter of Babylon. The Jews that had returned were in distress and danger, their enemies in the neighbourhood were spiteful against them, their friends that remained in Babylon were cool towards them, shy of them, and declined coming in to their assistance; and yet they are directed to s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Judah his portion in the holy land--Lest the joining of the Gentile “nations to Jehovah” (Zec 2:11) should lead the Jews to fear that their peculiar relation to Him (De 4:20; 9:29; 32:9) as “His inheritance” should cease, this verse is added to assure them of His making them so hereafter “again.” choose Jerusalem again--The course of God’s grace was interrupted for a time, but His covenant was…