Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Zechariah 12:14
All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
It would be somewhat tedious to repeat every family and their wives once, therefore a general comprehensive account may serve; some of every family of the whole remnant of Israel mourn, believe, look to, and obey Christ the Messiah. So the mourning for Christ bears Some proportion to their violent dealing against Christ, and they through faith live by the blood they did spill, and get to glory by him whom they loaded with reproaches. What will not grace do, when it converteth, accepteth, comforteth, glorifieth such offenders!
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. All . . . that remainafterthe fiery ordeal, in which two-thirds fall (Zec 13:8;Zec 13:9).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
All the families that remain,…. That will be in being in those times;
every family apart, and their wives apart; for the whole nation shall be born at once, and converted, and all Israel shall be saved,
Isa 66:8.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He says in the last place, that this lamentation would be common to all the remaining families. Though few had returned, except those from the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, and from the tribe of Levi, yet Zechariah, as I think, means here by the remaining families, the elect who had been miraculously delivered from the common ruin; for blindness had so prevailed, that the rejection of the whole people on the part of God was evident. Under this designation then I consider the remnants of grace, as Paul says, to be included; as though the Prophet had said, that he had spoken of sorrow, not with regard to the whole nation indiscriminately, but to that part which was a remnant according to the gratuitous election of God. Now follows —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
REFLECTIONS.
Almighty Lord! we desire to praise thee, for thy tender mercies to Jerusalem. Do, Lord, as thou hast said. May the Church of Jesus be a cup of trembling to all that dare oppose her great salvation in her Lord. Smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness, that , would trample on thy peaceable followers; and may all the inhabitants of thy Jerusalem, thine holy city, have their strength in the Lord of hosts, their God !
Reader! see, I pray you, whether the Lord’s strength is made perfect in your weakness; and as you know where, and in whom your confidence can alone be found, enquire whether the sweet promises in this Chapter be in your experience. If he that is feeble among the Lord’s people, be as David ; and the house of David as God; are these testimonies made personal with you? If it be among the gracious promises to the seed of Christ, that the Lord will pour .out upon them both a spirit of grace, and a spirit of supplications; do you know that you are Christ’s seed by these sure marks and characters? Doth the Holy Ghost lead you, teach you, guide you, and help you, in your approaches to the mercy seat? Doth He glorify to your view the Lord Jesus? Doth He take of the things of Christ, and shew to you? Doth He shew Christ’s fulness to your soul, and your want of him, in such a way as to make it appear, that Christ is exactly suited to you, and you to Christ? This is to take of Christ, and shew to the people. And this is to glorify Christ, and comfort a poor believer. It is in this way the Holy Ghost confirms those sweet and blessed promises, in becoming both a spirit of grace, and a spirit of supplication; a spirit of truth, and the Holy Ghost the Comforter. May the Lord give both to Writer and Reader, daily testimonies both to this scripture, and to all the promises, which in Christ Jesus are yea and Amen, to the glory of God by us.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Zec 12:14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Ver. 14. All the families that remain ] Out of every family of this people God will have some converts, “A remnant according to the election of grace,” Rom 11:5 . A thing so incredible, that to persuade it the prophet may here seem to some profane person to use more words than needeth.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
and: Pro 9:12
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
12:14 All the families that {o} remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
(o) That is, who were elect by grace, and preserved from the common destruction.