Zec 8:3 | TNotes | STEP | 8:3 I will live in Jerusalem: The great hope of the postexilic community was that the Lord would return to dwell among his people again (see 1:16-17 ; Hag 2:4-7 ; cp. Ezek 48:35 ). • I am returning: God would return to Jerusalem not just because the Temple had been rebuilt but because the Hebrew community had been purified (Zech 3 ). • Isaiah compared Jerusalem to a faithful woman who became a prostitute (Isa 1:21 ). Zechariah shared Isaiah’s vision of Jerusalem’s change into a Faithful City (or city of truth ) again (Isa 1:26 ).

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‏ Zechariah 8:3

8:3 ^a I will live in Jerusalem: The great hope of the postexilic community was that the Lord would return to dwell among his people again (see 1:16-17 ^b; Hag 2:4-7 ^c; cp. Ezek 48:35 ^d).

• I am returning: God would return to Jerusalem not just because the Temple had been rebuilt but because the Hebrew community had been purified (Zech 3 ^e).

• Isaiah compared Jerusalem to a faithful woman who became a prostitute (Isa 1:21 ^f). Zechariah shared Isaiah’s vision of Jerusalem’s change into a Faithful City (or city of truth) again (Isa 1:26 ^g).