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8For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

Zechariah 2:8

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  • Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

  • He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

  • But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. …

  • But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

  • Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-9)

One would have thought that Cyrus’s proclamation, which gave liberty to the captive Jews to return to their own land, would suffice to bring them all back, and that, as when Pharaoh gave them leave to quit Egypt and their house of bondage there, they would not leave a hoof behind; but it seems it had not that effect. There were about 40,000 whose spirits God stirred up to go, and they went; but ma…

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