Zechariah 14
Jerusalem and the
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Behold, the day 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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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 Uzzi'ah 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; Ezek.
47.1 · Joh.
7.38 · Rev.
22.1 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
Han'aneel unto the king's winepresses.
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And men shall dwell in it, and
there shall be no more utter destruction; Rev. 22.3 but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
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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
neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbor.
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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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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. Lev. 23.39-43
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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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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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