Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 10:5

5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty men , which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battel : and they shall fight , because the LORD is with them : and the riders on horses shall be confounded .

The Iews under the Conduct of their Captains, such as the Maccabees

shall be valiant, mighty Warriours,

Shall take Cities, and beat down those that oppose them, and as usual in such cases tread the conquer'd as mire in the streets;

thus valiantly and successfully

fighteth for them, and against their Enemies.

This is the Character of the Iews Enemies, they came with armed men, and a mighty Cavalry, as Antiochus, and others did in which they trusted; but this availed little, these Horsemen were consounded, beaten, or fled away from a beating, when God was with Iudah's Enemies, so they behaved themselves, and trod down Iudah, now he is reconciled to Iudah, and fighteth for Iudah, Iudah shall behave himself, and succeed against his Enemies as before they did against him.

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