And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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Gill's Exposition
Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... This is repeated for the same end as before; See Gill on Zac 8:4,
If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days; either in the then…
Adam Clarke
The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls - The progeny shall be numerous, healthy, and happy. Their innocent gambols and useful exercises shall be a means of health, and a proof of…
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,…
We read, as a fulfilment of this prophecy, that in the days of Simon, in the times of the Maccabees, "the ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things" (1Ma 14:9); while our…
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