514 VISIONS AND PROPHECIES OF ZECHARIAH
Jacob then " shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid." 1
() " And there shall be no more curse " (or " ban," or " sentence of destruction," as the word may be rendered), because the causes which previously provoked the Holy One to inflict desolating and destructive judgments upon the land and people shall be no more. 2 Another glorious and blessed contrast with the past, when on account of /i? manifold and continuous transgressions He had to " profane jr the princes of the sanctuary, and give Jacob over to the curse K ; ( D ?.n, herein) and Israel to reproaches " (or " reviling"). 3 fc
(c] " A nd Jerusalem shall dwell (or shall be inhabited ) \i safely, or literally, in conscious security " ( n 9?/, labhetacli) or ); ,:, " in confidence " ; for, though it shall be surrounded neither fa by walls, nor fortifications, it shall have nothing to fear. K( " For I, saith Jehovah, will be unto her a wall of fire round fe about, and the glory in the midst of her," 4 and " salvation " {/ will Jehovah appoint for walls and bulwarks. 5 This outline picture of the blessed condition of restored and purified Jerusalem, which in the millennial period will be, so to say, /, the earthly vestibule and the reflection of the giory $
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1 Jer. xxx. 10.
2 The word Q"in, herein (which is a masculine noun), describes primarily something devoted usually for utter destruction, but occasionally also for sacred ;, uses. Thus, for instance, the cities and inhabitants of Canaan were devoted by< O f God to utter destruction, and of Jericho particularly we read: "And the cityj j,, shall be Dnn, herem (devoted) even it and all that is therein to Jehovah " ,, (Josh. vi. 17). Achan, by taking D"jnn |p, min hacherem, "of the devoted: j e thing," made the whole camp of Israel D"in, " accursed," or devoted to destructive judgment, until it was purged by the discovery and stoning of the transgressor, who became himself herem, like the "devoted" thing which he had stolen :ir (Josh. vi. 18, vii. 11-13). If an individual or a whole city in Israel forsook T Jehovah and turned to serve other gods, they became herem, devoted to utter \ destruction (Deut. vii. 25, 26, xiii. 12-17). In Lev. xxvii. 29, where we read, a "All devoted (herem}, that shall be devoted from among men, shall not be , ransomed, he shall surely be put to death," it is such cases which are con- ; templated, i.e., those devoted by God " from among men " for utter destruction, j, either on account of apostasy or because of some special crime. Thus Benha- dad is called Pin E> i<, " a man under my herem, or ban," " one whom I have |T devoted to utter destruction" (i Kings xx. 42). So likewise were the Amale- r kites, etc. The Septuagint properly renders onri in Zech. xiv. II, by anathema. - (
3 Isa. xliii. 28. 4 Zech. ii. 4, 5. 5 Isa. xxvi. i.
