Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Zechariah 9:15

Context
NETBible

The Lord who rules over all will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink, and will become noisy like drunkards, 1  full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar. 2 

XREF

Ex 27:2; Le 4:7,18,25; 1Sa 17:45; Ps 78:65; So 1:4; So 5:1; So 7:9; Isa 55:1; Mic 5:8; Zec 9:17; Zec 10:5; Zec 10:7; Zec 12:6; Zec 14:20; Ac 2:13-18; 1Co 1:18; Eph 5:18; Re 19:13-21

NET © Notes

tn Heb “they will drink and roar as with wine”; the LXX (followed here by NAB, NRSV) reads “they will drink blood like wine” (referring to a figurative “drinking” of the blood of their enemies).

sn The whole setting is eschatological as the intensely figurative language shows. The message is that the Lord will assume his triumphant reign over all the earth and will use his own redeemed and renewed people Israel to accomplish that work. The imagery of v. 15 is the eating and drinking of the flesh and blood of God’s enemies, that is, Israel’s complete mastery of them. Like those who drink too much wine, the Lord’s warriors will be satiated with the blood of their foes and will exult as though drunk.



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