Zechariah 9

1. He will honor us in our life. (1.) He will put honor upon our persons: He will number us among his jewels (Malachi 3:17), he will make us a royal diadem in his hand (Isaiah 62:3), he will lift us up in the eyes of others (Zechariah 9:16). They shall be as the stones of a crow…

All crosses have lost their salt and their sting; even as when a city is taken by storming, all the commanders and soldiers are disarmed: and when a court is cried down, by law, all the members and officers of the court, judge, and scribe, and advocates that can plead, pursuivan…

If the roses, lilies, meadows be fair, he must be fairer who created them; but in another kind. If the heavens, stars, and sun be beautiful, the lovely Lord who made them must have their beauty in a high measure (Zechariah 9:17). How great is the Lord's goodness, how great is hi…

Now the intrinsic end, and so the specific acts of this husband, who is joined to us, by the marriage-covenant of free grace, must be free love to his spouse; as Paul expounds it (Ephesians 5:25), and the native fruit, and end of marriage, is that the spouse might have interest…

For therefore has he sent his son, not to oppress us with heaviness and sorrow, but to cheer up our souls in him. For this cause the Prophets, the Apostles, and Christ himself do exhort us, indeed they command us to rejoice and be glad (Zechariah 9). Rejoice, you daughter of Zio…

is very emphatic; for it would have given no great delight to hear that the Author of salvation was born, unless each person believed that for himself he was born. In the same manner Isaiah says, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given,” (Isaiah 9:6;) and Zechariah, “Be…

And such is the import of the following prophecies: Rejoice, daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes, poor, sitting on an ass, (Zechariah 9:9.) We beheld him, and he had no form or beauty, and he resembled a leper, so that we had no esteem for him, (Isaiah 53:3,4.)

So then, as his removal to heaven was at hand, he intended to commence his reign openly on earth. This would have been a ridiculous display, if it had not been in accordance with the prediction of Zechariah 9:9. In order to lay claim to the honors of royalty, he enters Jerusalem…

How great is his Beauty! Zech. 9. 17. There is nothing in him but what is suited to draw out, to answer and fill the Affections of the Soul.

That is the voyce of Love; How great is his Goodness! how great is his Beauty! Zech. 9. 17. the Soul being as it were ravished with that View which it has of the glorious Excellencies of God in Christ, has no way to express its Affections but by Admiration. How great is his Good…

And this value that God sets upon them on this account is so great, that God thinks fitting from regard to it to admit them to such exceeding glory. The saints on the account of their relation to Christ are such precious jewels in God's sight, that they are thought worthy of a p…

Now Christ is the only rest of our souls: in any thing, for any end or purpose, to take up short of him, is to lose it. It is not enough that we be prisoners of hope, but we must turn to our strong hold, Zechariah 9:12. not enough that we are weary and laden, but we must come to…

1. The parties excited and spoken to here, are the daughters of Zion: By Zion oftentimes in Scripture is understood the Church, wherein Christ is set as King (Psalm 2:6), and elsewhere: and so by daughters of Zion, we are to understand members of the Church; they are the same wi…

"He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: and breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire." See also Zechariah 9:10. Then shall all nations dwell quietly and safely, without fear of any enemy, Isaiah 32:13.

2. It is the delivery of one from bondage or captivity; we are without him, all prisoners and captives: bound in prison (Isaiah 61:1), sitting in darkness, in the prison house (Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9). Prisoners in the pit wherein there is no water (Zechariah 9:11), the captiv…

A believer never casts away his anchor. The Jews were prisoners in Babylon, yet prisoners of hope (Zechariah 9:10): turn to your stronghold, you prisoners of hope. When a Christian is on his deathbed and all hope of life is taken away, yet his hope in God is not taken away.

5. There's not only a seed, but a rich conquest, the heathen promised, and the ends of the earth (Psalm 2:8-9). Dominion from sea to sea (Zechariah 9:10) (Psalm 72:8) (Daniel 7:14), and both this and the former satisfies Christ. There is not a sight so desirable to the eye of Ch…

Nothing falls wrong to a mortified soul. The people cry Hosanna, Christ bids them rejoice, their King comes (Zechariah 9:9). The wicked spits on his face, and plucks off the hair, that is good (Isaiah 50:6): I gave them face and back to be doing their will.

Solomon reigned from the Sea of Sodom, the Red Sea, to the Mediterranean Sea, and west, and from the Euphrates to the utmost of Canaan, north and south — but specially in Christ, who has all nations, Gentiles and Jews, for his own (Psalm 2:8-9; Psalm 22:27; Psalm 72:8-11; Isaiah…

For great regard was had in this, as in all the other acts of his life and ministry, to that last and conclusive part, his dying a sacrifice upon the cross for the sins of men; to observe all along that mediocrity, and steer that middle course between [reconstructed: obscurity]…

And what persons are in danger of, that wonder, and are thus slow to acknowledge God in such a work, we learn by that of the apostle in that forementioned (Acts 13:41): "Behold you despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wis…

It is said by some, that the people that are the subjects of this work, when they get together, talking loud and earnestly, in their supposed great joys, several in a room, talking at the same time, make a noise just like a company of drunken persons. On which I would observe, t…