Zechariah 14:16 BSB

Zechariah 14:16

Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

BSB

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ASV

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Shall even go up from year to year - The Jews had three grand original festivals, which characterized different epochs in their history, viz.: - 1. The feast of the passover, in commemoration of their departure from Egypt. 2. The feast of pentecost, in commemoration of the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai. 3. The feast of tabernacles, in commemoration of their wandering forty years in the wilderness.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

That is left - That escapes the stroke. To worship - By a ceremonial usage which shadowed out a better worship, the prophet foretells the constant zeal of the converted Gentiles to worship the Lord. The feast of tabernacles - One solemn festival is by a figure, put for all the days consecrated to God for holy worship.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They shall go up to worship at Jerusalem, because that was the place which God had chosen, and there the temple was, which was a type of Christ and his mediation. Converting grace sets us right, 1.

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Hebraic traditional view

The feast with a future

Of all the feasts, Zechariah gives Tabernacles (Sukkot, the autumn booth-feast) the widest horizon: the surviving nations come up to Jerusalem year by year to keep it. The sages noticed the feast's reach toward the nations from the Torah itself: the seventy bulls offered across Sukkot's seven days (Numbers 29) were read in the Talmud as offerings on behalf of the seventy nations of the world (Sukkah 55b). The feast Israel keeps in a backyard booth carries, in both Testaments' reception, the whole world in view.

Sources: Sukkah 55b (the seventy bulls for the seventy nations) · Numbers 29:12–34 (the seventy bulls, counted)

Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיָ֗ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
הַנּוֹתָר֙	ha.no.Tar	<the> [one who] remains	H3498 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	of all	H3605 →
הַגּוֹיִ֔ם	ha.go.Yim	the nations	H1471 →
הַבָּאִ֖ים	ha.ba.'Im	which came	H935 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
וְעָל֞וּ	ve.'a.Lu	and they will go up	H5927 →
מִדֵּ֧י	mi.Dei	as often as	H1767 →
שָׁנָ֣ה	sha.Nah	a year	H8141 →
בְשָׁנָ֗ה	ve.sha.Nah	in a year	H8141 →
לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹת֙	le.hish.ta.cha.Vot	to bow down	H7812 →
לְמֶ֙לֶךְ֙	le.Me.lekh	to [the] king	H4428 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֔וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
וְלָחֹ֖ג	ve.la.Chog	and to celebrate a festival	H2287 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
חַ֥ג	chag	[the] festival of	H2282 →
הַסֻּכּֽוֹת׃	ha.su.Kot	<the> Tabernacles	H5521 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 66:23
From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
leads to
- Ezekiel 46:1
  “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the…
- Psalms 86:9
  All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
- Ezekiel 46:6
  On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish.
- Colossians 2:16–17
  Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
- Psalms 81:3–4
  Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.