Zechariah 12:11

Zechariah 12:11

9 It shall be in that day that I will seek to ^adestroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Mourning for the Pierced One

10 ^a“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will ^blook on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him ^cas one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

11 In that day there shall be a great ^amourning in Jerusalem, ^blike the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

12 ^aAnd the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^bNathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;

14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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As in Zechariah 12:10 the bitterness of their mourning is illustrated by a private case of mourning, so in this verse by a public one, the greatest recorded in Jewish history, that for the violent death in battle with Pharaoh-necho of the good King Josiah, whose reign had been the only gleam of brightness for the period from Hezekiah to the downfall of the state; lamentations were written by Jeremiah for the occasion (II Kings 23:29-30; II Chronicles 35:22-27).

Hadad-rimmon—a place or city in the great plain of Esdraelon, the battlefield of many a conflict, near Megiddo; called so from the Syrian idol Rimmon. Hadad also was the name of the sun, a chief god of the Syrians [MACROBIUS, Saturnalia, 1.23]. A universal and an individual mourning at once.

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