The Pulpit Commentary on Zechariah 8:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people; peoples. The sight of the prosperity of the Jews shall induce surrounding nations to join in the worship of Jehovah. The same truth is expressed in Psalms 126:1-3.

Perowne thinks that verses 20, 21 refer to the tribes of Israel; but it seems unnatural to suppose the prophet asserting that it will yet happen that Israelites will seek the Lord, when there is no reason to think that they had not done so in some fashion, or that they would need the previous deliberation mentioned in the next verse.

Many cities. So the LXX. and Vulgate. Others translate, "great, or, populous cities;" but this is less suitable.

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