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Zechariah 9:7

Zechariah 9:7
And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will take away his blood out of his mouth,.... The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read "their blood"; not the blood of the bastard, but of the Philistines. The Targum is, "I will…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And I will take away his blood out of his mouth - The “abominations” being idol-sacrifices , the “bloods” will also be, the blood mingled with the wine of sacrifices, of which David says, “Their…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I will take away his blood out of his mouth - The Philistines, when incorporated with the Israelites, shall abstain from blood, and every thing that is abominable.

And Ekron as a Jebusite - As an…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Zechariah 9:1-8

After the precious promises we had in the foregoing chapter of favour to God's people, their persecutors, who hated them, come to be reckoned with, those particularly that bordered close upon them.

I.…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

his blood out of his mouth, &c. Lit., bloods, i.e. blood as shed (comp. Gen 4:10). According to Calvin the Philistine, the nation personified, is here compared to a wild beast from whose jaws the prey…