Zechariah 12:3 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 12:3

On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.

BSB

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ASV

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

KJV

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people,.... The Targum renders it "a stone of offence"; at which they shall stumble and fall; but it seems to design the immovableness of the state and condition of Jerusalem, that those who attempt to remove her out of her place, or to make any alteration in her happy circumstances, will not be able to do it, Psa 125:

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all nations - What is “a stone to all nations?” It is not a rock or anything in its own nature immovable, but a “stone,” a thing rolled up and down, moved, lifted, displaced, piled on others, in every way at the service and command of people, to do with it what they willed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Compare Mt 21:44: The Jews "fell" on the rock of offense, Messiah, and were "broken"; but the rock shall fall on Antichrist, who "burdens himself with it" by his assault on the restored Jews, and "grind him to powder." all . . . people of . . . earth--The Antichristian confederacy against the Jews shall be almost universal.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיָ֣ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
בַיּוֹם־	vai.yom-	on the day	H3117 →
הַ֠הוּא	Ha.hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
אָשִׂ֨ים	'a.Sim	I will make	H7760 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
אֶ֤בֶן	'E.ven	a stone of	H68 →
מַֽעֲמָסָה֙	ma.'a.ma.Sah	burden	H4614 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	for all	H3605 →
הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים	ha.'a.Mim	the peoples	H5971 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
עֹמְסֶ֖יהָ	'o.me.Sei.ha	[those who] carry it	H6006 →
שָׂר֣וֹט	sa.Rot	severely <injure>	H8295 →
יִשָּׂרֵ֑טוּ	yi.sa.Re.tu	they will injure themselves	H8295 →
וְנֶאֶסְפ֣וּ	ve.ne.'es.Fu	and they will gather	H622 →
עָלֶ֔יהָ	'a.Lei.ha	on it	H5921 →
כֹּ֖ל	kol	all	H3605 →
גּוֹיֵ֥י	go.Yei	[the] nations of	H1471 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →

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

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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
Matthew 21:44
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
leads to
- Isaiah 8:14–15
  And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 2:34–35
  As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 2:44–45
  In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Zechariah 13:1
“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:11
  And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- John 1:29
  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Psalms 51:2
  Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
- Ezekiel 36:25
  I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Hebrews 9:13–14
  For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

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