Zechariah 2:6a
Re-evaluation Translation:
2:6 Alert! Awaken! And flee from the dwellings of darkness, says Yehuveh: for I have dispersed you everywhere by warfare, famine, oppression, and disease, says Yehuveh.
Bible, KJV Translation:
2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
Yehuveh’s Fourth Sign in the Heavens: Commentary on Zechariah 2:1-13 (21 November 2008):
Significant Words and Comments:
This is the cry Jeremiah 51:6; 45: “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of Yehuveh’s vengeance; He will render unto her a recompense.” “My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of Yehuveh.” It is the appeal of Revelation 18:2-4.
Significant Words: 2:6 (21 November 2008): Ho is from howy [H1945], meaning “Oh!” from the primary root word 'ahahh [H0162], meaning “an expression of pain; an exclamatorily outburst; Oh!” Howy is used only three times in Zechariah [2:6 (twice); 11:17].
Come forth, according to both The Interlinear Bible and Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, is entirely a supplied phrase without any Hebrew source. This should alarm us! We have been taught to build our beliefs on the Scriptures as we have received them, yet they are not according to the original Hebrew text. The Scriptures have a more accurate translation: “Oh, Oh! And flee from the land of the north . . . .” The Tanakh, the JPS Hebrew-English Scriptures, is even better: “Away, away! Flee from the land of the north . . . .”
Flee is from the primary root verb nuwc [H5127], meaning “to flit; that is, to vanish away (subside, escape; to chase, impel; to deliver.” Nuwc is used only four times in Zechariah [2:6; 14:5 (thrice)]. Of the one hundred fifty-six uses of nuwc in Torah, all but four are translated with some form of flee.
Land [H0776] is discussed in notes on Zechariah 1:10.
North is from tsaphown [H6828], properly meaning “hidden; that is, dark; used only of the north as a quarter; gloomy and unknown.” Because tsaphown plays such a significant part in associating the tribes of Israel with the twelve constellation signs of Zadok, there is a lengthy discussion of all four directions in Twelve Tribes of Israel and the Zodiac. Tsaphown is used only five times in Zechariah [2:6; 6:6, 8 (twice); 14:4].
Land of the north is, according to Jeremiah 16:15 and Ezekiel 26:7, symbolic of the confused deceptive philosophy of Babylon, from which Revelation 18:2-4 also calls us to flee: “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” [Compare Jeremiah 3:18; 24:6; 30:3, 10; 31:8; 32:37; 50:19; Deuteronomy 30:3-5; Psalms 106:47; Isaiah 11:11-16; 13:5, 6; 14:1; 27:12, 13; Ezekiel 34:12-14; 36:24; 37:21, 22; 39:28; Amos 9:14.]
Saith [H5002] is discussed in notes on Zechariah 1:3.
Yehuveh [H3068] is discussed in notes on Zechariah 1:1.
Gael Bataman
Originally Written: 21 November 2008
Latest Update: 21 November 2008
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