The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Zechariah 14
1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when
your plunder will be divided within you.
2 For I will gather all nations against
Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be
taken, the houses rifled, and the women
ravished. Half of the city will go out into
captivity, and the rest ofthe people will not
be cut off from the city.
3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight
againstthose nations, as when he foughtin
the day of battle.
4 His feet will stand in that day on the
Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem
on the east; and the Mount of Olives will
be split in two from east to west, making
a very great valley. Half of the mountain
will move toward the north, and half of it
toward the south.
5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains,
for the valley of the mountains shall
reach to Azel. Yes, you shall flee, just like
you fled from before the earthquake in the
days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my
God will come, and all the holy ones with
you.†
6 It will happen in that day thatthere will
not be light, cold, or frost.
7 It will be a unique day which is known
to Yahweh—not day, and not night; but it
will come topass that at evening time there
will be light.
8 It will happen in that day that living
waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of
them toward the eastern sea, and half of
them toward the western sea. It will be so
in summer and in winter.
9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth.
In that day Yahweh will be one, and his
name one.
10 All the land will be made like the
Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and
will dwell in her place, 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.
11 Men will dwell therein, and there will
be no more curse; butJerusalem will dwell
safely.
12 This willbe theplague with whichYahweh will
strike all the peoples who have
fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will
consume away while they stand on their
feet, and their eyes will consume away
in their sockets, and their tongue will
consume away in their mouth.
13 It will happen in that day that
a great panic from Yahweh will be among them;
and they will each seize the hand of his
neighbor, and his hand will rise up against
the hand of his neighbor.
14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and
the wealth of all the surrounding nations
will be gathered together: gold, silver, and
clothing, in great abundance.
15 A plague like this will fall on the horse,
on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey,
and on all the animals that will be in those
camps.
16 It will happen that everyone who is
left of all the nations that came against
Jerusalem will go up from year to year to
worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and
to keep the feast of booths.
17 It will be that whoever of all the families
of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem
to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on
them there will be no rain.
18 Ifthe family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t
come, neither will it rain on them.
This will be the plague with which Yahweh
will strike the nations that don’t go up to
keep the feast of booths.
19 This will be the punishment of Egypt
and the punishment of all the nations that
don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
20 In that day there will be inscribed on
the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”;
and the pots in Yahweh’s house will
be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in
Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies;
and all those who sacrifice will come and
take of them, and cook in them. In that day
there will no longer be a Canaanite
‡ in the house of Yahweh of Armies.