And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
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Gill's Exposition
Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... For the further confirmation and illustration of this prophecy:
in those days it shall come to pass; this shall be done in the times of the preaching of the Gospel…
Barnes' Notes
The inhabitants of one city shall go to another - It is one unresting extension of the fairly, the restlessness of faith and love. Osorius: “They shall not be satisfied with their own salvation,…
Adam Clarke
I will go also - This is the answer of the person invited. It is a good work. We must have God for our friend. We cannot expect this unless we seek him: and as we know not what an hour may bring…
These verses contain two precious promises, for the further encouragement of those pious Jews that were hearty in building the temple.
I. That a happy period should be put to their fasts, and there…
Cambridge Bible
speedily Lit. come let us go, to go, which may merely express the earnestness of the exhortation. "Omnes una et magno studio." Rosenm.
to pray before or to entreat the favour, as in Zec 7:2.
I will go…
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