Zechariah 14:1
in Zechariah 14Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
KJV
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
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This verse in Zechariah 14
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Chapter 14, verses 1, 2.) Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when your spoils will be divided in your midst. And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem for battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated. And half of the city shall go into captivity, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. LXX: Behold, the days of the Lord are coming, and your spoils will be divided within you.
This site's exposition
the day of the Lord cometh
on Zechariah 14:1-2
The chapter opens on the day of the Lord itself, and it opens badly for Jerusalem: her own spoil divided in the midst of her, the nations gathered to battle, the city taken, houses rifled, women ravished, half the city marched into captivity. The last clause holds the turn inside the disaster, for the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city, a remnant kept alive inside the very catastrophe that seems to swallow the whole. The readings on the timing and referent of this day are named with their holders and carried no further, per the parking order that governs the whole close of the book.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The day - Of vengeance, Joel ii, 1, 2, cometh, or will soon overtake you, O sinful, unthankful! bloody! Thy spoil - All thou hast, O, Jerusalem, shall become a prey to thine enemy.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Behold the Day of the Lord cometh - Literally, “a day cometh, the Lord’s,” in which He Himself shall be Judge, and no longer leave man to fulfill his own will, and despise God’s; in which His glory and holiness and the righteousness of all His ways shall be revealed. And thy spoil shall be in the midst of thee - Jerome: “How great will the strait be, that the spoils should be divided in the midst of her.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh - This appears to be a prediction of that war in which Jerusalem was finally destroyed, and the Jews scattered all over the face of the earth; and of the effects produced by it.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִנֵּ֥ה | hineh | there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| יֽוֹם־ | yom- | a day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| בָּ֖א | ba' | [is] coming | H935 → | 2568 times |
| לַֽיהוָ֑ה | layahweh | of Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וְחֻלַּ֥ק | vechulak | and it will be divided | H2505 → | |
| שְׁלָלֵ֖ךְ | shelalekh | plunder your | H7998 → | |
| בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ׃ | bekirbekh | in midst your | H7130 → |
הִנֵּ֥הthere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
יֽוֹם־a day
yom-H3117 →2304 times
בָּ֖א[is] coming
ba'H935 →2568 times
לַֽיהוָ֑הof Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
וְחֻלַּ֥קand it will be divided
vechulakH2505 →
שְׁלָלֵ֖ךְplunder your
shelalekhH7998 →
בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ׃in midst your
bekirbekhH7130 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
it leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8
in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- 2 Peter 3:7
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Malachi 3:2
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
- Isaiah 47:14
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8
Through
Isaiah 13:9Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
it leads to
- Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Malachi 4:1
Through
Revelation 16:14These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
it leads to
- Revelation 17:14
They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen…
- Revelation 17:14
Through
Acts 2:20The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.
it leads to
- 2 Peter 3:10
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
- Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
- 2 Peter 3:10
Where this verse is studied
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About Zechariah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets: A Commentary; Jerome, Commentary on Zechariah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.