Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
who . . . despised . . . small things—He reproves their ungrateful unbelief, which they felt because of the humble beginning, compared with the greatness of the undertaking; and encourages them with the assurance that their progress in the work, though small, was an earnest of great and final success, because Jehovah's eye is upon Zerubbabel and the work, to support Him with His favor. Contrast, "great is the day of Jezreel" (Hosea 1:11) with "the day of small things" here.
they shall rejoice . . . with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord—rather, "they, even those seven eyes of the Lord (compare Zechariah 3:9), which . . . shall rejoice and see (that is, rejoicingly see) the plummet (literally, the 'stone of tin') in the hand of Zerubbabel" [MOORE]; the plummet in his hand indicating that the work is going forward to its completion. The Hebrew punctuation, however, favors English Version, of which the sense is, They who incredulously "despised" such "small" beginnings of the work as are made now, shall rejoicingly see its going on to completion under Zerubbabel, "with (the aid of) those seven," namely, the "seven eyes upon one stone" (Zechariah 3:9): which are explained, "They are the eyes of the Lord which," etc. [PEMBELLUS]. So differently do men and Jehovah regard the "small" beginnings of God's work (Ezra 3:12; Haggai 2:3). Men "despised" the work in its early stage: God rejoicingly regards it, and shall continue to do so.
run to and fro, etc.—Nothing in the whole earth escapes the eye of Jehovah, so that He can ward off all danger from His people, come from what quarter it may, in prosecuting His work (Proverbs 15:3; I Corinthians 16:9).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Zechariah 4:10:
Psalms 118:22-23
Song of Solomon 5:12
Ezekiel 1:14
Ezekiel 1:18
Ezekiel 10:12
Haggai 2:3
Zechariah 3:9
Zechariah 4:1
Zechariah 8:6
Matthew 25:4
Revelation 3:1
Revelation 11:4
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