Zechariah 9 in the early church

[Vulgate: Zacharias]

96 passages quote, allude to, or echo Zechariah 9, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

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Zech 9:9First Apology 35 · Justin Martyrquotation, high confidenceca. 150–155
Zech 9:9Sibylline Oracles 8.321ff. · Anonymousquotation, high confidence2nd-3rd cent.
Zech 9:9Dialogue with Trypho 53.3 · Justin Martyrquotation, high confidenceca. 155–160
Zech 9:9Dialogue with Trypho 88.6 · Justin Martyrallusion, high confidenceca. 155–160
Zech 9:9The Instructor 1.5.15 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Zech 9:9Exhortation to the Greeks 12.121 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Zech 9:9Against Heresies 3.19.2 · Irenaeus of Lyonsallusion, high confidenceca. 180–190
Zech 9:9Against Heresies 4.33.1 · Irenaeus of Lyonsallusion, high confidenceca. 180–190
Zech 9:9Against Heresies 4.33.12 · Irenaeus of Lyonsallusion, high confidenceca. 180–190
Zech 9:9Miscellanies 5.14.137 · Clement of Alexandriaecho, low confidenceca. 198–203
Zech 9:9Commentary on John 10.124 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on John 10.155 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on John 10.160 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on John 10.162 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on John 10.202 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on John 10.203 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:9Homilies on Joshua 15.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Zech 9:9Homilies on Numbers 13.8 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 26 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 16.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 16.14 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 16.15 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 16.16 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 16.18 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 16.19 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:9To Quirinus 2.29 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)
Zech 9:9Prophetic Extracts 3.24 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidencebefore 325 (probably ca. 310–320)
Zech 9:9Divine Institutes 7.18.8 · Lactantiusecho, medium confidenceca. 303–311
Zech 9:9–10Demonstration of the Gospel 2.3.9 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9Demonstration of the Gospel 8.1.76 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9–10Demonstration of the Gospel 8.4.2 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9–10Demonstration of the Gospel 8.4.11 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9–10Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.1 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.6 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.7 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.12 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9Demonstration of the Gospel 9.18.2 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:9Book 3, lines 619–643 · Juvencusquotation, high confidenceca. 330
Zech 9:9Catechetical Lecture 12.11 · Cyril of Jerusalemquotation, high confidenceca. 350
Zech 9:9Catechetical Lecture 12.17 · Cyril of Jerusalemallusion, high confidenceca. 350
Zech 9:9Commentary on Matthew 21 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 353–355
Zech 9:9Tractates on the Psalms 64.2 · Hilary of Poitiersquotation, high confidenceca. 360–367
Zech 9:9Tractates on the Psalms 68.31 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, medium confidenceca. 360–367
Zech 9:9Tractates on the Psalms 145.1 · Hilary of Poitiersquotation, high confidenceca. 360–367
Zech 9:9Tractates 2.6.1 · Zeno of Veronaquotation, high confidenceca. 362-380
Zech 9:9Letter 27.3 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Zech 9:9–10Letter 53.8 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Zech 9:9Letter 140.3 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Zech 9:9Apostolic Constitutions 5.20.10 · Anonymousquotation, high confidenceca. 380
Zech 9:9Homilies on Matthew 19.11 · John Chrysostomquotation, high confidenceca. 390
Zech 9:9Homilies on Matthew 66.1 · John Chrysostomquotation, high confidenceca. 390
Zech 9:9Homilies on Matthew 66.2 · John Chrysostomquotation, high confidenceca. 390
Zech 9:9The Harmony of the Gospels 2.128 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidenceca. 399–400
Zech 9:9Tractates on the Gospel of John 51.5 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 406–420
Zech 9:9City of God 18.35 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidence413–426
Zech 9:9Part 3, chapter 16 · Quodvultdeus of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 445-450

Zechariah 9:10

And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

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Zech 9:10On First Principles 4.2.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Zech 9:10Commentary on John 10.161 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:10Commentary on John 10.163 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:10Commentary on John 10.204 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:10Commentary on John 10.205 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:10Commentary on John 10.206 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 230–248
Zech 9:10Homilies on Joshua 15.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Zech 9:10Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 26 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Zech 9:10Commentary on Matthew 16.14 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:10Commentary on Matthew 16.16 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:10Prophetic Extracts 3.24 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidencebefore 325 (probably ca. 310–320)
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 8.4.12 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 8.4.13 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 8.4.14 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.9 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.14 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.15 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10Demonstration of the Gospel 9.17.16 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324
Zech 9:10City of God 18.35 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidence413–426

Zechariah 9:11

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

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Zech 9:11Commentary on Matthew 16.14 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Zech 9:11Demonstration 14.31 · Aphrahatallusion, high confidence337-345
Zech 9:11Catechetical Lecture 12.11 · Cyril of Jerusalemquotation, high confidenceca. 350
Zech 9:11Catechetical Lecture 13.32 · Cyril of Jerusalemquotation, high confidenceca. 350
Zech 9:11City of God 18.35 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidence413–426

Zechariah 9:12

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

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Zech 9:12Commentary on Matthew 16.14 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248

Zechariah 9:13

For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

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Zech 9:13Letter 34.4 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 370–419

Zechariah 9:14

Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

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Zech 9:14On the Life of Moses 379 · Gregory of Nyssaallusion, low confidenceca. 385–395
Zech 9:14Explanation of Twelve Psalms 45.13.4 · Ambrosequotation, medium confidenceca. 387-397

Zechariah 9:15

The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.

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Zech 9:15–16Against Marcion 4.39 · Tertullianquotation, high confidence207/208 (third edition, completed later)

Zechariah 9:16

On that day the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.

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Zech 9:16Eclogae on Exodus-Judges, column 805 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 220-254
Zech 9:16Letter 22.19 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 370–419
Zech 9:16Letter 78.39 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Zech 9:16Homily 7 · Gregory of Nyssaquotation, high confidenceca. 379–394
Zech 9:16Homily 7 · Gregory of Nyssaallusion, medium confidenceca. 390–394
Zech 9:16–17Book 1, chapter 24 · Anonymousquotation, high confidenceca. 440-450

Zechariah 9:17

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

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Zech 9:17Apostolic Constitutions 4.5.2 · Anonymousquotation, medium confidenceca. 380
Zech 9:17Apostolic Constitutions 7.20.2 · Anonymousquotation, high confidenceca. 380
Zech 9:17Against Jovinianus 1.30 · Jeromequotation, high confidence393
Zech 9:17Letters 40.10 · Paulinus of Nolaallusion, low confidenceca. 394–413
Zech 9:17The Conferences 3.16 · John Cassianquotation, medium confidenceca. 426–429