John Gill's Exposition on Zechariah 1:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, etc.] The same that was among the myrtle trees in the bottom, (<380108>Zechariah 1:8,10,11): O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah; which were fallen to ruin, and had lain waste for many years. These words are expressive of the intercession of Christ on the behalf of the people of the Jews, his professing people, both with respect to their temporal and spiritual good: against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? the time of the Babylonish captivity, which lasted such a term of time, and which was a token of the divine displeasure with them; but to be reckoned, not from Jeconiah’s captivity, to the deliverance from it by Cyrus, as it is reckoned, (<242501>Jeremiah 25:1,11) (<270902>Daniel 9:2) but from the taking of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the temple under Zedekiah, to the rebuilding of the temple under Darius Hystaspis, in whose second year Zechariah now prophesied, (<380107>Zechariah 1:7), which was a space of seventy years.

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