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Zechariah 2:4
and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The angel who met the prophet commands the angel who was initially speaking with him to run and deliver a message to a young man about Jerusalem.
The words — רֻץ (Rutz) means "run" and דַּבֵּר (da.Ber) means "speak," forming the direct imperative command issued in the vision.
The thread — The promise of an un-walled, populous Jerusalem echoes the restoration hope in Zechariah 1:17, the multiplied descendants in Jeremiah 33:22, and contrasts with the unwalled villages targeted in Ezekiel 38:11.
Why it lands — The text states that divine presence will replace physical fortifications, requiring the reader to acknowledge that security rests on God's immediate protection rather than human defenses.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
Cross-references
- Zechariah 1:17 Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
- Jeremiah 33:22 As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- Ezekiel 38:11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—
- Micah 7:11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.
- Isaiah 44:26 who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
- Isaiah 49:20 Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
- Jeremiah 31:27 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
- Ezekiel 36:10 I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
- Zechariah 8:4 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.
- Zechariah 12:6 On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.