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Category: Zechariah

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    Zechariah 11:1-3

    Text [1] Open your doors, O Lebanon, Open, O Lebanon, your doors, So that fire may devour your cedars! And let fire devour your cedars! [2] Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Cry out, pine, because the cedar has fallen, For the glorious trees are ruined! Because the nobles are severely distressed! Wail,…

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    Summary of Zechariah 10

    On my first several readings of Zechariah, this chapter struck me as something to be glossed over, I think in part because it is not explicitly cited in the New Testament, and where later chapters are more likely to seem like an inseparable part of a unified whole, there is some sense to which Zechariah…

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    Zechariah 10:8-12

    Text [8] I will signal for them and gather them in, I will signal to them and welcome them,  For I have redeemed them, Because I shall redeem them, And they shall be as numerous as they were before. And they shall be multiplied just as they were many; [9] Though I scattered them among…

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    Zechariah 10:6-7

    Text [6] I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I shall reinforce the house of Judah And I will strengthen the house of Joseph. And the house of Joseph I shall save I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, And I shall settle them because I have loved them And…

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    Zechariah 10:1-5

    Text [1] Ask rain from the LORD Ask for rain from the Lord each hour In the season of the spring rain, Early and late! From the LORD who makes the storm clouds, The Lord shall make apparitions, Who gives showers of rain to you, And winter rain shall give to them, The vegetation in…

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    Reading Zechariah 9 in the New Testament

    Now that we have reviewed this chapter, let us think a little bit about what the citation of verse 9 in Mark and John implies about early Christians understanding of Jesus and his relationship to prophecy. This verse is cited in both Matthew and John, and in both Gospels the section cited below is either…

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    Zechariah 9:16-17

    Text [16] On that day the LORD their God will save them And the Lord shall save them on this day For they are the flock of his people; As sheep are his people For like jewels on a crown they shall shine on his land Because holy stones roll upon his land [17] For…

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    Zechariah 9:14-15

    Text [14] Then the LORD will appear over them, And the Lord shall be upon them, And his arrow go forth like lightning; And shall go forth like a lightning bolt, The LORD God will sound the trumpet The Lord Almighty shall shall trumpet with a trumpet And march forth in the whirlwinds of the…

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    Zechariah 9:11-13

    Text [11] As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, And you in the blood of the covenant you send out your prisoners I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. From a pit that does not have water. [12] Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; You…

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    Zechariah 9:9-10

    Text [9]Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Rejoice greatly, daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Proclaim, daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; See your king comes to you, Triumphant and victorious is he, Righteous and saving is this one Humble and riding on a donkey, Gentle and mounted on a beast of burden…