Daily Devotions
Zechariah
"Judah, My bow"
Text: Zechariah 9:13
A DEEP PROPHECY
Prophecies are never shallow statements. They are profound in more ways than one.
“For I have bent Judah, My bow,
Fitted the bow with Ephraim,
And raised up your sons, O Zion,
Against your sons, O Greece,
And made you like the sword of a mighty man.”
Zechariah 9:13
1. The first profound statement
a) Judah and Ephraim
i) Judah is a reference to the Southern Kingdom.
ii) Ephraim represents Israel the Northern Kingdom.
iii) Israel became two monarchies (Rehoboam was king of Judah;
Jeroboam I was the first king of Israel, Northern Kingdom, in the year 930 BC.)
b) In this prophecy
i) Judah was the bow.
ii) Ephraim was the arrow.
iii) An astonishing prophetic view of the day when Israel would be joined together as one nation.
2. The mention of Greece is another profound statement
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