Zechariah 2:1-7

2:1

looked <05375> [lifted.]

man <0376> [a man.]

2:2

going <01980> [Whither.]

measure ...... determine <04058 07200> [To.]

2:3

messenger .......... messenger <04397> [the angel.]

another <0312> [and another.]

2:4

young man <05288> [young.]

Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]

We learn from Josephus, that Jerusalem actually overflowed with inhabitants, and gradually extended itself beyond its walls, and that Herod Agrippa fortified the new part, called Bezetha.

2:5

wall <02346> [a wall.]

glory <03519> [the glory.]

2:6

there <01945> [ho.]

Flee <05127> [and flee.]

scattered <06566> [spread.]

2:7

Escape <04422> [Deliver.]

live <03427> [that.]

<01323> [daughter.]

The Babylonians were vanquished by the Persians, formerly their servants, under Darius Hystaspes, who took Babylon after a siege of twelve months, demolished its walls, and put 300,000 of the inhabitants to death.