Zechariah 8:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

Zechariah 8:3 —

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Zechariah 1:16
Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 33:16
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Zechariah 14:20-21
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. …
Joel 3:17
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

The prophet, in his foregoing discourses, had left his hearers under a high charge of guilt and a deep sense of wrath; he had left them in a melancholy view of the desolations of their pleasant land, which was the effect of their fathers’ disobedience; but because he designed to bring them to repentance, not to drive them to despair, he here sets before them the great things God had in store for t…

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

(vv. 3)

3. I am returned--that is, I am determined to return. My decree to that effect is gone forth. Jerusalem ... city of truth--that is, faithful to her God, who is the God of truth (Is 1:21, 26; Joh 17:17). Never yet fully fulfilled, therefore still to be so. the mountain of the Lord--(Is 2:2, 3). holy mountain--(Jr 31:23).