Zechariah

Zechariah 12 ©

1 Jerusalem a cup of trembling, and burdensome stone to the confusion of her adversaries. 6 The victorious restoring of Judah. 10 The repentance of Jerusalem.

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THE aburden of the word of the LORD bfor Israel, saith the LORD, which cstretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and dformeth the spirit of man within him.

a ch. 9.1. Is. 13.1. Mal. 1.1. La. 2.14. Na. 1.1.
b Ps. 12.5. Is. 51.22,23. Je. 50.34.
c Is. 42.5; 44.24; 45.18; 48.13. Ps. 104.2; 24.2. Job 26.7.
d Nu. 16.22. Ec. 12.7. Is. 57.16. He. 12.9.
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Behold, eI will make Jerusalem a cup of 1trembling unto all the people round about, 2when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

e Is. 51.17,22,23. ch. 9.13-16; 10.4,5; 14.3,14. Eze. 38; 39.
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¶And in fthat day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, gthough all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

f ch. 14.1-3,13,14. Mi. 5.8,9. Eze. 38; 39. Mat. 21.44. Da. 2.34,44.
g ch. 14.1,14. Mi. 4.11. Eze. 38.4-7,15,16. Re. 17.14.
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hIn that day, saith the LORD, iI will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will jopen mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

h v.4,6,8,9,11.
i ch. 14.13; 10.5. 2Ki. 6.18. Ps. 76.5,6; 33.17. De. 28.28.
j ch. 9.8. Je. 24.6; 30.17,18. Ps. 119.133,153. 2Ch. 16.9.
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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 3The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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¶In that day will I make the governors of Judah klike 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, lon the right hand and on the left: and mJerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

k v.9. Ob. 18. Mi. 5.5,9,8; 4.13. Is. 41.15,16. Da. 2.34,35,44. Je. 5.14.
l Eze. 16.46. Is. 9.20.
m ch. 1.16; 2.4,12; 6.12; 8.8. Je. 30.18. Ne. 3; 11; 12. 1Ch. 9.
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The LORD also nshall 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.

n Je. 30.18. 1Co. 1.27-29,31. Je. 9.23,24. 2Co. 4.6.
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In that day oshall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; pand he that is 4feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be qas God, as the rangel of the LORD before them.

o ch. 2.5; 9.15,16.
p ch. 10.12. He. 11.34. Joel 3.10.
q Jn. 17.21-23.
r Ex. 23.20; 32.34. Is. 63.9. Mi. 2.13. Jos. 5.13,14. Mal. 3.1.
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¶And it shall come to pass in that day, that sI will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

s ch. 9.14,15; 10.4,5; 14.3,13,14. v.4,6. Eze. 38.18-22; 39.1-22. Is. 54.17; 66.14-18. Hag. 2.22.
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And tI will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the uspirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me vwhom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, was one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

t Is. 44.3,4; 32.15; 54.13. Joel 2.28. Eze. 39.29. Je. 31.9; 50.4. Eze. 16.61,63; 20.43; 36.27,31. Je. 3.21. Ac. 2.37.
u Ps. 51.12. Ro. 8.26.
v Mat. 24.30. Jn. 19.34,37. Re. 1.7. Ps. 22.16; 49.7; 50.6; 53.4,5.
w Je. 6.26. Am. 8.10.
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In that day xshall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, yas the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

x Ac. 2.37. Ju. 20.47. 2Ch. 35.22-25. Jos. 17.16.
y 2Ki. 23.29.
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And zthe land shall mourn, 5every family apart; athe family of the house of David apart, and btheir wives apart; the family of the house of cNathan apart, and their wives apart;

a Je. 13.18. Jonah 3.5,6.
b 1Co. 7.5. Joel 2.16. ch. 7.3.
c 2Sa. 5.14; 7.2-4; 12.1.
z v.10,11. Je. 3.12,13,21,25; 31.9,18,19. Ro. 11.15.
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The family of the house of dLevi apart, and their wives apart; the family 6of eShimei apart, and their wives apart;

d Mal. 2.4-9. Nu. 3; 4; 8; 17; 18.
e 2Sa. 16.5-8. 1Ch. 3.19. Nu. 3.18.
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fAll the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives gapart.

f Je. 31.9,18,19; 3.21; 50.4. Eze. 36.31,32; 16.63; 6.9; 7.16.
g Pr. 9.12.