Zechariah 14:19 BSB

Zechariah 14:19

This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

KJV

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

This shall be the punishment of Egypt,.... Or "sin" (d), as in the original text: rightly is the word rendered "punishment", as it is by the Targum: and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles; which will be one and the same; they shall have no rain, or what answers to it; they shall all have a famine; or it will be different, Egypt shall be punished with a consumption of their flesh, and the other nations with want of rain: the former sense seems best. (d) חטאת "peccatum", V. L.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This shall be the punishment --margin, This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all nations, that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. The same word signifies both sin and the punishment of sin, so close and inseparable is the connexion between them (as Gen. iv. 7 ), and sin is often its own punishment.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

This shall be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles - For before the coming of the Saviour, good perhaps had been in part the excuse of the pagan, that they had been called by none. For no one had preached unto them.

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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

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֹ֥את	zot	this	H2063 →
תִּהְיֶ֖ה	tih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
חַטַּ֣את	cha.Tat	[the] punishment for sin of	H2403 →
מִצְרָ֑יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
וְחַטַּאת֙	ve.cha.taT	and [the] punishment for sin of	H2403 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַגּוֹיִ֔ם	ha.go.Yim	the nations	H1471 →
אֲשֶׁר֙	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יַֽעֲל֔וּ	ya.'a.Lu	they will go up	H5927 →
לָחֹ֖ג	la.Chog	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
John 3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
leads to
- John 8:12
  Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:12
  in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
- John 9:39–41
  Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
- Romans 2:8
  But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- John 12:43
  For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.