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Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.

KJV

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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Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Zechariah · Written before 420.

(Verse 21.) And all the sacrificers shall come, and they shall take from them, and they shall cook in them: and there shall be no more a merchant in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day. LXX: And all who sacrifice shall come and take from them, and they shall cook in them, and there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty in that day. For the Canaanite, Aquila interpreted it as a merchant, whom we also have followed in this place.

This site's exposition

HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD

on Zechariah 14:20-21

The last word of the book moves holiness from the high priest's forehead to a horse's bridle: HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD, the very phrase engraved on Aaron's gold plate at Exodus 28:36, now stamped on the bells of ordinary horses, and every pot in Jerusalem counted as holy as the bowls before the altar. The bench reads the picture as consecration spread outward from the sanctuary until the whole city carries what only the priesthood once carried. The book's last clause, no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord, is read two ways by the commentators, the ancient enemy nation excluded at last, or the trader and merchant sense the same word carries elsewhere (Prov 31:24, Job 41:6), and both readings are named without a verdict.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

COMMENTARY ON ZECHARIAH · Written before 373.

proposed

And the cooking pots in the house of the Lord shall be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar; and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come …

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

That sacrifice - So the prophet expresses all religious affections, practice, and worship, which shall be as pleasing to God, as were the sacrifices of his people offered up with divine warrant and approbation. Seethe therein - That part of the sacrifice which pertaineth to the priests, and to the offerer to feast on.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Real holiness shall be more diffused than it had been, because there shall be more powerful means of sanctification, more excellent rules, more cogent arguments, and brighter patterns of holiness, and because there shall be a more plentiful effusion of the Spirit of holiness and sanctification, after Christ's ascension than ever before.
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the Lord - Everything is to be advanced in holiness. All the common utensils everywhere in the people of God shall not only be holy, but “holiness,” and capable of the same use as the vessels of the temple. And there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts - The actual Canaanite had long since ceased to be; the Gibeonites, the last remnant of them, had been absorbed among the people of God.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

MAURER not so well translates "merchant" here, as in Pr 31:24. If a man would have the beginnings of heaven, it must be by absolute consecration of everything to God on earth. Let his life be a liturgy, a holy service of acted worship [MOORE].

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem - “The utensils of the Jews shall be treated as holy, and the worshippers shall use them reverently. The idea of preparing food in them (they that - seethe therein) is taken from the custom of feasting after sacrifice. And no trafficker (see Eze 18:4) shall pollute the house of God, as was the custom when our blessed Lord cleansed the temple.” - See Newcome. This is what is called the Canaanite in the house of God. The Canaanite is the merchant; and where such are tolerated in a place dedicated to Divine worship, that is not the house of the Lord of hosts. In churches and chapels, collections may be made for the simple purpose of supporting and extending the worship of Jehovah; but for no other purpose, especially on the Lord’s day. Amen.

How the passage was read

On Zechariah 14:16-21

On Zechariah 14:16-21

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.

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

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

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְ֠הָיָהand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • סִ֨ירpot

    sirH5518 →

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֜םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וּבִֽיהוּדָ֗הand in Judah

    uvihudahH3063 →819 times

  • קֹ֚דֶשׁa holy thing

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • לַיהוָ֣הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • צְבָא֔וֹתof hosts

    tzevaotH6635 →485 times

  • וּבָ֙אוּ֙and they will come

    uvauH935 →2568 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַזֹּ֣בְחִ֔יםthose [who] sacrifice

    hazoechimH2076 →

  • וְלָקְח֥וּand they will take

    velakechuH3947 →966 times

  • מֵהֶ֖םsome of them

    mehem

  • וּבִשְּׁל֣וּand they will boil

    uvisheluH1310 →

  • בָהֶ֑םin them

    vahem

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִהְיֶ֨ה[he] will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • כְנַעֲנִ֥יa Canaanite

    khenaaniH3669 →

  • ע֛וֹדagain

    odH5750 →490 times

  • בְּבֵית־in [the] house of

    beveit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֥הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • צְבָא֖וֹתof hosts

    tzevaotH6635 →485 times

  • בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַהֽוּא׃<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 44:9This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.7 worksRomans 14:6–7He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.6 worksJoel 3:17Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.6 works1 Corinthians 10:31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.6 worksMark 11:15–17When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.5 worksRevelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.5 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Matthew 21:12–13Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.4 worksRevelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.4 worksEphesians 2:19–22Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,4 worksRevelation 18:11–15And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—4 worksNehemiah 8:10Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”4 worksJohn 2:15–16So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.4 worksEzekiel 37:23They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.4 works1 Corinthians 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,3 worksHebrews 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.3 worksIsaiah 35:8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.3 worksZechariah 7:6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?3 worksDeuteronomy 12:12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.3 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    1 Corinthians 10:31

    So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

    it leads to

    • Colossians 3:17

      And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

    • Colossians 3:23

      Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

    • 1 Peter 4:11

      If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through…

    • Deuteronomy 12:7

      There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

    • Deuteronomy 12:18

      Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within…

  • Through

    Joel 3:17

    Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

    it leads to

    • Joel 2:27

      Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

    • Nahum 1:15

      Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be…

    • Isaiah 52:1

      Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.

Where this verse is studied

About Zechariah

Zechariah's Vision of Four Chariots, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Zechariah's Vision of Four Chariots, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Zechariah: the study guide →Read Zechariah 14 →
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON ZECHARIAH; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.

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