Zechariah 12
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Zechariah 12
Jerusalem’s Victory
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Isa 42.5; 57.16; Heb 12.9 An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within: 2#Isa 51.22, 23; Zech 14.14See, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding peoples; it will be against Judah also in the siege against Jerusalem. 3#Dan 2.34, 35, 44, 45; Zech 14.2; Mt 21.44On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth shall come together against it. 4#Ps 76.6; Ezek 38.4; Zech 9.10On that day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. But on the house of Judah I will keep a watchful eye, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5#Zech 10.6, 12Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, “The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.”
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Isa 10.17, 18; Ob 18; Zech 2.4; 8.3–5 On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot on a pile of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves, and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
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Jer 30.18; Am 9.11 And the Lord will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah. 8#Ps 8.5; 82.6; Mic 7.8; Zech 9.14, 15On that day the Lord will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, at their head. 9#v 3; Zech 14.2, 3And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Mourning for the Pierced One
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Isa 44.3; Jer 6.26; Ezek 39.29; Joel 2.28; Jn 19.34; Rev 1.7 And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that, when they look on the one#12.10 Heb on me whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn. 11#2 Kings 23.29On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12The land shall mourn, each family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; 13the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves; 14and all the families that are left, each by itself and their wives by themselves.
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