Zechariah 14:7-17

7 For it will be ¹a unique day which is ²known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at ³evening time there will be light.

8 And in that day ⁴living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

God Will Be King over All

9 And the LORD will be ⁵king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only ⁶one, and His name the only one.

10 All the land will be changed into a plain from ⁷Geba to ⁸Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will ⁹rise and ¹⁰remain on its site from ¹¹Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ¹²Corner Gate, and from the ¹³Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses.

11 People will live in it, and there will ¹⁴no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will ¹⁵dwell in security.

12 Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ¹⁶rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

13 It will come about in that day that a great panic from the LORD will fall on them; and they will ¹⁷seize one another's hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another.

14 ¹⁸Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ¹⁹wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.

15 So also like this ²⁰plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

16 Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ²¹go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the ²²Feast of Booths.

17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ²³King, the LORD of hosts, there will be ²⁴no rain on them.

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Zechariah 14:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ZECHARIAH 14

This chapter treats of the coming of Christ with all his saints, and his personal appearance among them; and of the signs of the times before that; and of what shall befall the enemies of the church, both open and secret; and of the happy state and condition of the church itself. First there will be a time of great affliction to the people of God, Zec 14:1,2, when the Lord will appear and fight for them, and will appear to them, and with them, Zec 14:3-5 but before this time it will be an uncommon season, neither day nor night; at the close of which, light will break forth, Zec 14:6,7 the Gospel will be spread far and near, attended with the Spirit and grace of God in great plenty, Zec 14:8 which will bring on the spiritual reign of Christ over all the earth, Zec 14:9 particularly the land of Judea, and the city of Jerusalem, shall be inhabited by men with safety, Zec 14:10,11 and all those that oppose and fight against the Lord's people shall be destroyed, partly by an immediate plague from the Lord upon them, and partly by the hands of one another, and also by the saints of the most High; and the plague shall not only be upon their persons, but upon their cattle likewise, Zec 14:12-16 and as for those that profess the Christian name, and yet neglect or refuse to worship the Lord in a spiritual and evangelical manner, there shall be no rain upon them, Zec 14:17-19 and as for the church and people of God, there shall be universal holiness among them, and not a single Canaanite to be found in the midst of them, Zec 14:20,21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 24

1. Jeremiah 30:7; Amos 8:9
2. Isaiah 45:21; Acts 15:18
3. Isaiah 58:10; Revelation 22:5
4. Ezekiel 47:1-12; Joel 3:18; John 7:38; Revelation 22:1, 2
5. Isaiah 2:2-4; Isaiah 45:23; Zechariah 9:9; Zechariah 14:16, 17
6. Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:21-24
7. 1 Kings 15:22
8. Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:45, 47
9. Isaiah 2:2; Amos 9:11
10. Jeremiah 30:18; Zechariah 12:6
11. Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:7
12. 2 Kings 14:13
13. Jeremiah 31:38
14. Zechariah 8:13; Revelation 22:3
15. Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Ezekiel 34:25-28
16. Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:21, 22
17. Zechariah 11:6
18. Zechariah 12:2, 5
19. Isaiah 23:18; Zechariah 14:1
20. Zechariah 14:12
21. Isaiah 60:6-9; Isaiah 66:18-21, 23
22. Leviticus 23:34-44
23. Zechariah 14:9, 16
24. Jeremiah 14:3-6; Amos 4:7

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "it"
[b]. Lit "They"
[c]. Lit "be among"
[d]. Lit "rise up against"