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Zechariah 14 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Foes

Zec 14:1

Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you (Jerusalem) will be divided in your midst.

Zec 14:2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured and the houses plundered and the women ravished; and half of the city will be exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.
Zec 14:4In that day His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in half from the east to the west by a very large valley, and half of the mountain will move toward the north and half of it toward the south.
Zec 14:5You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; and you will flee just as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my [fn]God will come, and all the holy ones (believers, angels) with Him.
Zec 14:6

In that day there will be no light; the glorious ones (heavenly bodies) shall be darkened.

Zec 14:7But it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD—not day and not night, but at evening time there will be light.
Zec 14:8

And in that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea (Dead Sea) and half of them to the western sea (the Mediterranean); it will be in summer as well as in winter.

God Will Be King over All

Zec 14:9

And the LORD shall be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD shall be the only one [worshiped], and His name the only one.

Zec 14:10

All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon, [the Rimmon that is] south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain [lifted up] on its site from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

Zec 14:11It will be inhabited, for there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security.
Zec 14:12

Now this will be the plague with which the LORD shall strike all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

Zec 14:13In that day a great panic and dismay from the LORD will fall on them; and they will seize one another’s hand, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.
Zec 14:14Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together—gold and silver and garments in great abundance.
Zec 14:15So like this plague [on men] there will be the plague on the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the livestock in those camps.
Zec 14:16

Then everyone who is left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).

Zec 14:17And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
Zec 14:18If the family of Egypt does not go up [to Jerusalem] and present themselves, then no rain will fall on them. It will be the plague with which the LORD will strike the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).
Zec 14:19This will be the [consequent] punishment [for the sin] of Egypt, and the [consequent] punishment [for the sin] of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).
Zec 14:20

In that day there will be written on the little bells on the horses, “[fn]HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the LORDS house will be [holy to the LORD] like the bowls before the altar.

Zec 14:21Every cooking pot in [all the houses in] Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take them and boil [their sacrifices] in them. And in that day there will no longer be a Canaanite [that is, any godless or spiritually unclean person, whether Jew or Gentile] in the house of the LORD of hosts.
AMP Footnotes
The second coming of Christ to the earth is taught many times in Scripture. See Deut 30:3; Zech 14:3, 4; Matt 16:27; 24:3-14, 27, 36-39; 25:31, 32; 26:64; Luke 21:25-28; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor 1:7, 8; 4:5; 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Tim 4:1; Titus 2:13; Heb 9:28; 1 John 2:28; Rev 3:11; 16:15; 22:7, 20.
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