Zechariah 14:1-8
1599 Geneva Bible
14 8 Of the doctrine that shall proceed out of the Church, and of the restoration thereof.
1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be [a]divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses spoiled, and the women defiled, and half of the city shall go into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord shall go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he [b]fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the [c]mount of olives, which is before Jerusalem on the Eastside, and the mount of olives shall cleave in the midst thereof: toward the East and toward the West there shall be a very great [d]valley, and half of the mountain shall remove toward the North, and half of the mountain toward the South.
5 And ye shall flee unto the [e]valley of the mountains: for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee like as ye fled from the [f]earthquake, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord [g]my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee.
6 And in that day shall there be no clear light but dark.
7 And there shall be a day (it is known to the Lord) [h]neither day nor night, but about the evening time it shall be light.
8 And in that day shall there [i]waters of life go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the East sea, and half of them toward the uttermost sea, and shall be, both in summer and winter.
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- Zechariah 14:1 He armeth the godly against the great tentations that should come, before they enjoyed this prosperous estate promised under Christ, that when these dangers should come, they might know that they were warned of them afore.
- Zechariah 14:3 As your fathers and you have had experience both at the red sea, and at all other times.
- Zechariah 14:4 By this manner of speech the Prophet showeth God’s power and care over his Church, and how he will as it were by miracle save it.
- Zechariah 14:4 So that out of all the parts of the world, they shall see Jerusalem, which was before hid with this mountain: and this he meaneth of the spiritual Jerusalem the Church.
- Zechariah 14:5 He speaketh of the hypocrites, which could not abide God’s presence, but should flee into all places, where they might hide them among the mountains.
- Zechariah 14:5 Read Amos 1:1.
- Zechariah 14:5 Because they did not credit the Prophet’s words, he turneth to God and comforteth himself in that that he knew that these things should come, and saith, Thou, O God, with thine Angels wilt come to perform this great thing.
- Zechariah 14:7 Signifying, that there should be great troubles in the Church, and that the time hereof is in the Lord’s hands, yet at length (which is here meant by the evening) God would send comfort.
- Zechariah 14:8 That is, the spiritual graces of God, which should ever continue in most abundance.
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