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“‘On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a pan of fire among sticks of wood, and like a torch of fire among stalks[a] of grain, and they will devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its place, in Jerusalem. And Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants[b] of Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah. On that day Yahweh will put a shield around the inhabitants[c] of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh, before them.[d] And then[e] on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 12:6 Hebrew “stalk”
  2. Zechariah 12:7 Hebrew “inhabitant”
  3. Zechariah 12:8 Hebrew “inhabitant”
  4. Zechariah 12:8 Literally “to the face of them”
  5. Zechariah 12:9 Literally “And it will happen”

“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze or like a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left, while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure.

“The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, before Jerusalem, so that the people of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah. On that day the Lord will defend the people of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will be as mighty as King David! And the royal descendants will be like God, like the angel of the Lord who goes before them! For on that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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