Zechariah 14:16-21

The Coming Day of the Lord

16 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem k shall go up year after year to worship l the King, the Lord of hosts, and m to keep n the Feast of Booths. 17 And if o any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship l the King, the Lord of hosts, p there will be no rain on them. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; 1 there shall be j the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up m to keep the Feast of Booths. 19 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up m to keep the Feast of Booths.

20 And q on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, r "Holy to the Lord." And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be r 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 s there shall no longer be t a trader 2 in the house of the Lord of hosts q on that day.

  1. Cross References
    Zechariah 8:21
    The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.
  2. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:9
    And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
  3. Cross References
    Nahum 1:15
    Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
    Leviticus 23:34
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
  4. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:39 - 43
    On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:12
    For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
  6. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:16
    Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
  7. Cross References
    1 Kings 17:1
    Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
  8. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:15
    And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
  9. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:16
    Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
  10. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:16
    Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
  11. Cross References
    Zechariah 12:3
    On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 28:36
    "You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, 'Holy to the Lord.'
    Isaiah 23:18
    Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.
    Micah 4:13
    Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
  13. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:20
    And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the Lord." And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 44:9
    Thus says the Lord God : No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
    Joel 3:17
    So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
  15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:1 - 2
    When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves.
  16. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:20
    And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the Lord." And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar.
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