Zechariah 12
14 verses
Zechariah announces an oracle concerning Jerusalem in which the Lord declares that Jerusalem will be a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and will become a burdensome stone for all the peoples—any who attempt to lift it will be severely injured. The prophet promises that on that day the Lord will make Jerusalem immovable and secure, striking with panic all the horses and riders of the enemy nations who come against it. Zechariah declares that the Lord will pour out a spirit of grace and supplication upon the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, causing them to look upon the one they have pierced and mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, with bitter weeping and lamentation. This vision of mourning for a pierced one becomes crucial for New Testament interpretation of Christ's crucifixion and the future recognition by Israel of Jesus as Messiah. The prophet announces that on that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness. In redemptive history, Zechariah's prophecy of the pierced one and the subsequent mourning and cleansing establishes the eschatological framework through which the crucifixion and resurrection become intelligible as the culmination of Israel's covenant history.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
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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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In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. I notice the repetition here is deliberate — the author wants us to feel the emp...
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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God.
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In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
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The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
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In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. What a reminder that God's ways are not our ways. The thread of covenant runs th...
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And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
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All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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