Zechariah 14
14
The LORD Will Fight the Nations
1A day is going to come for the Lord when the loot you have taken will be divided among you. 2I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people in the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people won’t be taken from the city.
3Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as he does when he fights a battle. 4On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, just east of Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives will be split in two, forming a very large valley from east to west. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half will move toward the south. 5Then you will flee to the valley of my mountains, because this valley between the mountains will go as far as Azel. You will flee as you did from the earthquake at the time of King Uzziah of Judah. The Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones will be with him.
6On that day there will be neither heat nor freezing cold. 7There will be one day—a day known to the Lord—with no difference between day and night. It will be light even in the evening.
Living Water from Jerusalem
8On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it to the Dead Sea and the other half to the Mediterranean Sea. It will continue in summer and in winter.
9The Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be the only Lord and his name the only name.
10The whole earth will become like the plains from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site, from Benjamin Gate to the place of First Gate, Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11People will live there, and it will never be threatened with destruction. Jerusalem will live securely.
12This will be the plague the Lord will use to strike all the people from the nations that have gone to war against Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13On that day a large-scale panic from the Lord will spread among them. One person will grab the hand of another, and one will attack the other. 14Judah will also fight in Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected, a very large amount of gold, silver, and clothes. 15A similar plague will also affect horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all other animals in those camps.
16Everyone who is left from all the nations that attacked Jerusalem will come every year to worship the king, the Lord of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths. 17If any of the families on the earth won’t go to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of Armies, then rain won’t fall on them. 18If the people of Egypt won’t go or enter Jerusalem, then ⌞rain won’t fall⌟ on them. The plague the Lord uses to strike the nations will affect those who won’t come to celebrate the Festival of Booths. 19This will be ⌞the punishment⌟ for Egypt’s sin and for the sin of all the nations that won’t go to celebrate the Festival of Booths.
20On that day “Holy to the Lord” will be written on the bells of the horses. And the cooking pots in the house of the Lord will be like the bowls in front of the altar. 21Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Armies. All who come to sacrifice will take some of them and cook in them. On that day there will no longer be any Canaanite #14:21 Or “merchant.” in the house of the Lord of Armies.
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Zechariah 14
14
The Coming Day of the Lord
1Behold, #See Joel 1:15a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2For #Joel 3:2 I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and #[Luke 21:24] the city shall be taken #Isa. 13:16 and the houses plundered #Lam. 5:11 and the women raped. #ch. 13:8; [Matt. 24:40, 41]Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3#[ch. 12:9]Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4#[ver. 1]; See ch. 12:3 On that day his feet shall stand #[Ezek. 11:23] on #2 Sam. 15:30 the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and #2 Sam. 15:30 the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by #[ver. 10]a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. 5And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from #Amos 1:1the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.#14:5 Other Hebrew manuscripts you
6 # [See ver. 4 above] On that day #[Isa. 60:19; Rev. 21:23]there shall be #[Isa. 60:19; Rev. 21:23]no light, cold, or frost.#14:6 Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain 7#Rev. 21:25 And there shall be a unique#14:7 Hebrew one day, #Matt. 24:36 which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but #[Isa. 30:26]at evening time there shall be light.
8 # [See ver. 4 above] On that day #John 4:10; Rev. 22:1; [Isa. 33:21; Ezek. 47:1; Joel 3:18] living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to #Joel 2:20 the eastern sea#14:8 That is, the Dead Sea and half of them to #Joel 2:20 the western sea.#14:8 That is, the Mediterranean Sea #[Isa. 33:16]It shall continue in summer as in winter.
9And #Ps. 47:7; [ver. 16, 17; Mal. 1:14] the Lord will be king over all the earth. #[ver. 1]; See ch. 12:3 On that day the Lord will be #Eph. 4:5, 6 one and #[ch. 13:2]his name one.
10 # [ver. 4; Isa. 40:4] The whole land shall be turned into a plain from #Josh. 18:24 Geba to #Josh. 15:32 Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But #Isa. 2:2 Jerusalem shall remain aloft #ch. 12:6; [ch. 2:4] on its site from #See Jer. 37:13 the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to #Jer. 31:38 the Corner Gate, and from #Neh. 3:1; Jer. 31:38the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11And it shall be inhabited, for #Rev. 22:3 there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.#14:11 The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction #[Jer. 23:6]Jerusalem shall dwell in security.
12And this shall be #[ver. 15, 18]the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13And #See ch. 12:3 on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that #Hag. 2:22; [1 Sam. 14:20]each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 14Even #[ch. 12:2] Judah will fight at Jerusalem.#14:14 Or against Jerusalem And #[Ezek. 39:10]the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15And #[ver. 12]a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
16Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem #See ch. 8:21 shall go up year after year to worship #[ver. 9] the King, the Lord of hosts, and #[Nah. 1:15]; See Lev. 23:34 to keep #See Lev. 23:39-43the Feast of Booths. 17And if #Isa. 60:12 any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship #[See ver. 16 above] the King, the Lord of hosts, #See 1 Kgs. 17:1there will be no rain on them. 18And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;#14:18 Hebrew lacks rain there shall be #[See ver. 15 above] the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up #[See ver. 16 above]to keep the Feast of Booths. 19This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up #[See ver. 16 above]to keep the Feast of Booths.
20And #See ch. 12:3 on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, #Ex. 28:36; Isa. 23:18; Mic. 4:13“Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be #[See ver. 20 above] holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And #Ezek. 44:9; See Joel 3:17 there shall no longer be #[Deut. 7:1, 2] a trader#14:21 Or Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts #[See ver. 20 above]on that day.
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