Zec 14:6-9 | JFB | STEP | 6. light ... not ... clear ... dark-- Jerome, Chaldee, Syriac, and Septuagint translate, "There shall not be light, but cold and ice"; that is, a day full of horror ( ). But the Hebrew for "clear" does not mean "cold," but "precious," "splendid" (compare ). Calvin translates, "The light shall not be clear, but dark" (literally, "condensation," that is, thick mist); like a dark day in which you can hardly distinguish between day and night. English Version accords with : "There shall not be altogether light nor altogether darkness," but an intermediate condition in which sorrows shall be mingled with joys.

‏ Zechariah 14:6-9

6. light ... not ... clear ... dark--Jerome, Chaldee, Syriac, and Septuagint translate, "There shall not be light, but cold and ice"; that is, a day full of horror (Am 5:18). But the Hebrew for "clear" does not mean "cold," but "precious," "splendid" (compare Job 31:26). Calvin translates, "The light shall not be clear, but dark" (literally, "condensation," that is, thick mist); like a dark day in which you can hardly distinguish between day and night. English Version accords with Zec 14:7: "There shall not be altogether light nor altogether darkness," but an intermediate condition in which sorrows shall be mingled with joys.

7. one day--a day altogether unique, different from all others [Maurer]. Compare "one," that is, unique (So 6:9; Jr 30:7). Not as Henderson explains, "One continuous day, without night" (Re 22:5; 21:25); the millennial period (Re 20:3-7).

known to ... Lord--This truth restrains man's curiosity and teaches us to wait the Lord's own time (Mt 24:36).

not day, nor night--answering to "not ... clear nor ... dark" (Zec 14:6); not altogether daylight, yet not the darkness of night.

at evening ... shall be light--Towards the close of this twilight-like time of calamity, "light" shall spring up (Psa 97:11; 112:4; Is 30:26; 60:19, 20).

8. living waters--(Eze 47:1; Joe 3:18).

former sea--that is, the front, or east, which Orientalists face in taking the points of the compass; the Dead Sea.

hinder sea--the west or Mediterranean.

summer ... winter--neither dried up by heat, nor frozen by cold; ever flowing.

9. king over all ... earth--Is 54:5 implies that this is to be the consequence of Israel being again recognized by God as His own people (Da 2:44; Re 11:15).

one Lord ... name one--Not that He is not so already, but He shall then be recognized by all unanimously as "One." Now there are "gods many and lords many." Then Jehovah alone shall be worshipped. The manifestation of the unity of the Godhead shall be simultaneous with that of the unity of the Church. Believers are one in spirit already, even as God is one (Ep 4:3-6). But externally there are sad divisions. Not until these disappear, shall God reveal fully His unity to the world (Joh 17:21, 23). Then shall there be "a pure language, that all may call upon the name of the Lord with one consent" (Zep 3:9). The Son too shall at last give up His mediatorial kingdom to the Father, when the purposes for which it was established shall have been accomplished, "that God may be all in all" (1Co 15:24).