Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
every one . . . left— (Isaiah 66:19, Isaiah 66:23). God will conquer all the foes of the Church, Some He will destroy; others He will bring into willing subjection.
from year to year—literally, "from the sufficiency of a year in a year."
feast of tabernacles—The other two great yearly feasts, passover and pentecost, are not specified, because, their antitypes having come, the types are done away with. But the feast of tabernacles will be commemorative of the Jews' sojourn, not merely forty years in the wilderness, but for almost two thousand years of their dispersion. So it was kept on their return from the Babylonian dispersion (Nehemiah 8:14-17). It was the feast on which Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:8); a pledge of His return to His capital to reign (compare Leviticus 23:34, Leviticus 23:39-40, Leviticus 23:42; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 21:3). A feast of peculiar joy (Psalms 118:15; Hosea 12:9). The feast on which Jesus gave the invitation to the living waters of salvation ("Hosanna," save us now, was the cry, Matthew 21:9; compare Psalms 118:25-26) (John 7:2, John 7:37). To the Gentiles, too, it will be significant of perfected salvation after past wanderings in a moral wilderness, as it originally commemorated the ingathering of the harvest. The seedtime of tears shall then have issued in the harvest of joy [MOORE]. "All the nations" could not possibly in person go up to the feast, but they may do so by representatives.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Zechariah 14:16:
Isaiah 11:10
Isaiah 12:2
Isaiah 14:1
Isaiah 26:9
Isaiah 45:14
Isaiah 45:20
Isaiah 54:15
Isaiah 66:19
Isaiah 66:19
Isaiah 66:23
Jeremiah 3:17
Jeremiah 12:14-17
Ezekiel 20:41
Ezekiel 43:7
Hosea 12:9
Joel 3:17
Amos 9:12
Zephaniah 2:11
Zechariah 9:9
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Revelation 7:3
Revelation 7:9
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