Zechariah 9:2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.

English Standard Version
and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

New American Standard Bible
And Hamath also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

King James Bible
And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.

International Standard Version
Also Hamath, which borders on it— along with Tyre and Sidon— indeed they are very wise.

American Standard Version
and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise.

Darby Bible Translation
and also on Hamath which bordereth thereon; on Tyre and Zidon, though she be very wise.

Young's Literal Translation
And also Hamath doth border thereon, Tyre and Zidon, for -- very wise!

Cross References

Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Jeremiah 25:22
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

Jeremiah 47:4
Because of the day that comes to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God:

Ezekiel 28:4
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures:

Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyrus, and say to him, Thus said the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 28:21
Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 47:16
Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

Joel 3:4
Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will you render me a recompense? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own head;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:1-8 Here are judgements foretold on several nations. While the Macedonians and Alexander's successors were in warfare in these countries, the Lord promised to protect his people. God's house lies in the midst of an enemy's country; his church is as a lily among thorns. God's power and goodness are seen in her special preservation. The Lord encamps about his church, and while armies of proud opposers shall pass by and return, his eyes watch over her, so that they cannot prevail, and shortly the time will come when no exactor shall pass by her any more.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. Hamath—a Syrian kingdom with a capital of the same name, north of Damascus.

shall border thereby—shall be joined to Damascus in treatment, as it is in position; shall share in the burden of wrath of which Damascus is the resting-place. Maurer understands "which"; "Hamath, which borders on Damascus, also shall be the resting-place of Jehovah's wrath" (the latter words being supplied from Zec 9:1). Riblah, the scene of the Jews' sufferings from their foe, was there: it therefore shall suffer (2Ki 23:33; 25:6, 7, 20, 21).

Tyrus … Zidon—lying in the conqueror's way on his march along the Mediterranean to Egypt (compare Isa 23:1-18). Zidon, the older city, surrendered, and Abdolonymus was made its viceroy.

very wise—in her own eyes. Referring to Tyre: Zec 9:3 shows wherein her wisdom consisted, namely, in building a stronghold, and heaping up gold and silver (Eze 38:3, 5, 12, 17). On Alexander's expressing his wish to sacrifice in Hercules' temple in New Tyre on the island, she showed her wisdom in sending a golden crown, and replying that the true and ancient temple of Hercules was at Old Tyre on the mainland. With all her wisdom she cannot avert her doom.