Zec 1:14-17 | TNotes | STEP | 1:14 My love ... is passionate and strong: This phrase, sometimes translated as “I am very jealous,” reflects intense, single-minded devotion that could produce hatred and envy or zeal and devotion. God is jealous—as the one true and living God, he has exclusive rights to his creatures’ worship (see Exod 20:5 ; 34:14 ). • Jerusalem signifies the territories ruled by Judean kings; Mount Zion was the site of the Lord’s Temple.

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‏ Zechariah 1:14-17

1:14 ^a My love ... is passionate and strong: This phrase, sometimes translated as “I am very jealous,” reflects intense, single-minded devotion that could produce hatred and envy or zeal and devotion. God is jealous—as the one true and living God, he has exclusive rights to his creatures’ worship (see Exod 20:5 ^b; 34:14 ^c).

• Jerusalem signifies the territories ruled by Judean kings; Mount Zion was the site of the Lord’s Temple.
1:17 ^d The repetition of again (four times in Hebrew) emphasizes the certainty of God’s intention to restore Jerusalem.