Zechariah 14:1-8

The LORD Comes and Reigns

1 A day of the LORD is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.

2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.

3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle.

4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.

5 You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake^[a] in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

6 On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness.

7 It will be a unique day—a day known only to the LORD—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.

8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.

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Zechariah 14:1-8 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 21

1. Isaiah 13:6; S Joel 1:15; Isaiah 13:9; Malachi 4:1
2. S Isaiah 23:18
3. S Isaiah 2:3; S Zechariah 12:3
4. S Ezekiel 5:8
5. S Genesis 34:29; S Lamentations 5:11
6. Isaiah 13:6; S Zechariah 13:8
7. Zechariah 9:14-15
8. S Isaiah 8:9; S Zechariah 12:9
9. Ezekiel 11:23
10. S Numbers 16:31
11. Amos 1:1
12. Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 66:15-16
13. S Deuteronomy 33:2; Matthew 16:27; Matthew 25:31; Jude 14
14. S Isaiah 13:10; S Jeremiah 4:23
15. Jeremiah 30:7
16. Revelation 21:23-25; Revelation 22:5
17. S Isaiah 13:10; S Isaiah 30:26
18. Ezekiel 47:1-12; John 7:38; Revelation 22:1-2
19. S Isaiah 30:25
20. Joel 2:20
21. S Genesis 8:22

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or 5"My mountain valley will be blocked and will extend to Azel. It will be blocked as it was blocked because of the earthquake"