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Zechariah 1
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Zechariah exhorts the Jews to repent
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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the
word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the
son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
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Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto
you, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have
cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from
your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live
for ever?
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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants
the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they
returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto
us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath
he dealt with us.
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The vision of the horses
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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which
is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the
word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the
son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and
he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and
behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that
talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
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And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered
and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to
and fro through the earth.
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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among
the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through
the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is
at rest.
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At the prayer of the angel, comforting promises are made to Jerusalem
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Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of
hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on
the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation
these threescore and ten years?
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And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with
good words and comfortable words.
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So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou,
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at
ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward
the affliction.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem
with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of
hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
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Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities
through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD
shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
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The vision of the four horns and the four carpenters
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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
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And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these?
And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered
Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
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And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
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Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying,
These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no
man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to
cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn
over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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Zechariah 2
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God, in His care for Jerusalem, sends a man to measure it
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I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man
with a measuring line in his hand.
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Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To
measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and
what is the length thereof.
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And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and
another angel went out to meet him,
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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:
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For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round
about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
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The redemption of Zion
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Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north,
saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four
winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
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Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter
of Babylon.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he
sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that
toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
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For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they
shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the
LORD of hosts hath sent me.
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The promise of God's presence
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Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and
I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
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And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day,
and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee,
and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me
unto thee.
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And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy
land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
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Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised
up out of his holy habitation.
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Zechariah 3
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Under the type of Joshua, the restoration of Zion is foretold
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And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to
resist him.
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And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan;
even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire?
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Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before
the angel.
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And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him,
saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him
he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from
thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
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And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they
set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
And the angel of the LORD stood by.
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And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways,
and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge
my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee
places to walk among these that stand by.
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Christ the Branch is promised
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Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows
that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold,
I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
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For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon
one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the
graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove
the iniquity of that land in one day.
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In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every
man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
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Zechariah 4
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By the golden candlestick is foreshown the success of Zerubbabel's foundation
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And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me,
as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
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And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked,
and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top
of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the
seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
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And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the
bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
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So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me,
saying, What are these, my lord?
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Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me,
Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
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Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word
of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof
with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house;
his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the
LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
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For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall
rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel
with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to
and fro through the whole earth.
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and by the two olive trees, the two anointed ones
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Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive
trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left
side thereof?
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And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two
olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the
golden oil out of themselves?
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And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be?
And I said, No, my lord.
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Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand
by the Lord of the whole earth.
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Zechariah 5
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Visions of a flying scroll
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Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold
a flying roll.
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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see
a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof ten cubits.
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Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over
the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall
be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that
sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
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I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall
enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him
that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the
midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber
thereof and the stones thereof.
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and of a woman sitting in a bushel measure
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Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto
me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth
forth.
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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that
goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance
through all the earth.
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And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this
is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
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And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the
midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon
the mouth thereof.
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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there
came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for
they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up
the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
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Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do
these bear the ephah?
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And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of
Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her
own base.
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Zechariah 6
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The vision of the four chariots
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And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and,
behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains;
and the mountains were mountains of brass.
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In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot
black horses;
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And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth
chariot grisled and bay horses.
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Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me,
What are these, my lord?
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And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four
spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before
the Lord of all the earth.
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The black horses which are therein go forth into the north
country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled
go forth toward the south country.
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And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might
walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence,
walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro
through the earth.
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Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold,
these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit
in the north country.
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By the double crown of Joshua are shown the temple and kingdom of Christ the Branch
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah,
and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou
the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah;
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Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon
the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
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And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall
grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of
the LORD:
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Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear
the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall
be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be
between them both.
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And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to
Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in
the temple of the LORD.
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And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple
of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath
sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
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Zechariah 7
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The captives inquire concerning fasting
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that
the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day
of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
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When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and
Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
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And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the
LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep
in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these
so many years?
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Zechariah reproves their fasting
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Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
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Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests,
saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh
month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me,
even to me?
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And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat
for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by
the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men
inhabited the south and the plain?
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The cause of their captivity
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And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment,
and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
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And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger,
nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his
brother in your heart.
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But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder,
and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
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Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they
should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts
hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came
a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
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Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would
not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD
of hosts:
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But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations
whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them,
that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.
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Zechariah 8
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The restoration of Jerusalem
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Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
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Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell
in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a
city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy
mountain.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and
old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man
with his staff in his hand for very age.
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And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
playing in the streets thereof.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes
of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be
marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people
from the east country, and from the west country;
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And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God, in truth and in righteousness.
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The Jews are encouraged to build
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye
that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the
prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the
house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might
be built.
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For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any
hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went
out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men
every one against his neighbour.
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But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in
the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
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For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her
fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens
shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people
to possess all these things.
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And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among
the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will
I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your
hands be strong.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish
you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD
of hosts, and I repented not:
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So again have I thought in these days to do well unto
Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
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These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man
the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and
peace in your gates:
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And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his
neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things
that I hate, saith the LORD.
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Joy and enlargement are promised
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And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month,
and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the
fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and
peace.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass,
that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
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And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,
Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the
LORD of hosts: I will go also.
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Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the
LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come
to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of
the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is
a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that
God is with you.
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Zechariah 9
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God defends His church
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The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach,
and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man,
as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
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And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though
it be very wise.
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And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver
as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
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Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power
in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
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Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and
be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be
ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
shall not be inhabited.
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And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the
pride of the Philistines.
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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth,
even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor
in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
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And I will encamp about mine house because of the army,
because of him that passeth by, and because of him that
returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more:
for now have I seen with mine eyes.
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Zion is exhorted to rejoice for the coming of Christ and His peaceable kingdom
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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just,
and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon
a colt the foal of an ass.
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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse
from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he
shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall
be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends
of the earth.
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As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent
forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
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God's promises of victory and defense
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Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to
day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
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When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece,
and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
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And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall
go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the
trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
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The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour,
and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make
a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls,
and as the corners of the altar.
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And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the
flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown,
lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
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For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
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Zechariah 10
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God to be sought, and not idols
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Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the
LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain,
to every one grass in the field.
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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen
a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain:
therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled,
because there was no shepherd.
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Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished
the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the
house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in
the battle.
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Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out
of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
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As He punished his flock for sin, so will He save and restore them
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And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their
enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they
shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders
on horses shall be confounded.
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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save
the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place
them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though
I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will
hear them.
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And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their
heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall
see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
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I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed
them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
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And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember
me in far countries; and they shall live with their children,
and turn again.
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I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and
gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the
land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found
for them.
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And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall
smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river
shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,
and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
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And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk
up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
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Zechariah 11
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The destruction of Jerusalem
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Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty
are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the
vintage is come down.
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The elect being cared for, the rest are rejected
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There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their
glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for
the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
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Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
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Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty:
and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am
rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the
LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his
neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall
smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
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And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of
the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called
Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
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Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul
lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die;
and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the
rest eat every one the flesh of another.
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The staves of Beauty and Bands broken by the rejection of Christ
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And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that
I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
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And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock
that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
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And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price;
and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty
pieces of silver.
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And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly
price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces
of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
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Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might
break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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The example and curse of a foolish shepherd
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And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments
of a foolish shepherd.
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For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall
not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young
one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth
still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their
claws in pieces.
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Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword
shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall
be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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Zechariah 12
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The figure of a cup of trembling
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The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD,
which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation
of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
people round about, when they shall be in the siege both
against Judah and against Jerusalem.
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And a burdensome stone
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And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for
all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut
in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered
together against it.
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In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with
astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open
mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse
of the people with blindness.
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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The
inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of
hosts their God.
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The victorious restoration of Judah
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In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth
of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf;
and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right
hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again
in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
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The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the
glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants
of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
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In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David;
and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD
before them.
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The repentance of Jerusalem
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for
his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,
as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
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And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family
of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family
of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
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All the families that remain, every family apart, and their
wives apart.
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Zechariah 13
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The fountain of purging for Jerusalem
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In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house
of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
uncleanness.
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From idolatry, and false prophecy
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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the
land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will
cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of
the land.
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And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy,
then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto
him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name
of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him
shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall
be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied;
neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
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But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for
man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
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And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine
hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded
in the house of my friends.
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The death of Christ, and the victorious trial of a third part of the land
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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man
that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand
upon the little ones.
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And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the
LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the
third shall be left therein.
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And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will
refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold
is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them:
I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD
is my God.
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Zechariah 14
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The destroyers for Jerusalem will be destroyed
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Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee.
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For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;
and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the
women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into
captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off
from the city.
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Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in the day of battle.
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The coming of Christ, and the graces of His kingdom
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And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives
shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward
the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of
the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
toward the south.
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And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the
valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall
flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days
of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come,
and all the saints with thee.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall
not be clear, nor dark:
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But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD,
not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening
time it shall be light.
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And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out
from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half
of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter
shall it be.
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And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day
shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
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All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited
in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first
gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel
unto the king's winepresses.
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And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter
destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
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The plague of Jerusalem's enemies
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And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite
all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh
shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their
eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult
from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold
every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall
rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
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And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of
all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold,
and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
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And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in
these tents, as this plague.
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The remnant shall turn to the Lord
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And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of
all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go
up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the
families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
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And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that
have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD
will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast
of tabernacles.
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This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment
of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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And their spoils shall be holy
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In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house
shall be like the bowls before the altar.
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Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness
unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come
and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there
shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD
of hosts.
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