Zechariah 12:3

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people, etc.] The Targum renders it “a stone of offence”; at which they shall stumble and fall; but it seems to design the immovableness of the state and condition of Jerusalem, that those who attempt to remove her out of her place, or to make any alteration in her happy circumstances, will not be able to do it, (<19C501>Psalm 125:1). Jerom makes mention of a custom in the cities of Palestine, and which continued to his times throughout all Judea, that large, huge, round stones, used to be placed in the towns and villages, which the youths exercised themselves with, by trying to lift them up as high as they could, by which they…”

“(Compare Zac 14:4, Zac 14:6-9, Zac 14:13). JEROME states it was a custom in Palestine to test the strength of youths by their lifting up a massive stone; the phrase, "burden themselves with it," refers to this custom. Compare Mat 21:44 : The Jews "fell" on the rock of offense, Messiah, and were "broken"; but the rock shall fall on Antichrist, who "burdens himself with it" by his assault on the restored Jews, and "grind him to powder." all . . . people of . . . earth--The Antichristian confederacy against the Jews shall be almost universal.”

“I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all nations - What is “a stone to all nations?” It is not a rock or anything in its own nature immovable, but a “stone,” a thing rolled up and down, moved, lifted, displaced, piled on others, in every way at the service and command of people, to do with it what they willed. So they thought of that “stone cut out without hands” Daniel 2:45; that “tried stone and sure foundation, laid in Zion” Isaiah 28:16; that “stone” which, God said in Zechariah, “I have laid” Zechariah 3:9; of which our Lord says, “the stone, which the builders rejected, is become the head of the corner” Luke 20:17; “whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but on…”

“In that day - The day of the full accomplishment of this prophecy is a day known to the Lord. A burdensome stone - Too heavy for them, though many join together to remove it. Zechariah 12:4”

“12:3 Jerusalem will be an immovable rock that cuts and gashes those who attempt to conquer and control it, because the city was founded by the Lord, who loves it more than any other city of Israel (Ps 87:1-2). In Zechariah, imagery involving a stone is associated with the Temple (Zech 3:9; 4:7; 10:4).”

“in that: Zac 12:4, Zac 12:6, Zac 12:8, Zac 12:9, Zac 12:11, Zac 2:8, Zac 2:9, Zac 10:3-5, Zac 13:1, Zac 14:2, Zac 14:3, Zac 14:4, Zac 14:6, Zac 14:8, Zac 14:9, Zac 14:13; Isa 60:12; Isa 66:14-16; Ezek. 38:1-39:29; Joe 3:8-16; Oba 1:18; Mic 5:8, Mic 5:15; Mic 7:15-17; Hab 2:17; Zep 3:19; Hag 2:22 a burdensome: Dan 2:34, Dan 2:35, Dan 2:44, Dan 2:45; Mat 21:44; Luk 20:18 though: Zac 14:2, Zac 14:3; Mic 4:11-13; Rev 16:14, Rev 17:12-14, Rev 19:19-21, Rev 20:8, Rev 20:9 Zechariah 12:4”