D.
The prophecy concerning Israel's destiny in the great war of Armageddon, in their household salvation, and in the millennium
12:1 —14:21
1.
In the great war of Armageddon
12:1-14
Zech. 12
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12:1
1The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel.
Thus declares Jehovah, who
astretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the
2bspirit of man within him,
Zech. 12
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12:2
I am about to make Jerusalem a
acup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples; and when
what happens in
1siege is upon Jerusalem, it will be upon Judah as well.
Zech. 12
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12:3
And in that
aday I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples; all who burden themselves with her will be cut up. Indeed all the nations of the earth will be
bgathered against her.
Zech. 12
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12:4
In that day, declares Jehovah, I will strike every horse with bewilderment and its
arider with madness; and I will open My eyes upon the house of Judah and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Zech. 12
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12:5
Then the leaders of Judah will say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem, by Jehovah of hosts their God, are my strength.
Zech. 12
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12:6
In that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a
afire pot on wood and like a torch of fire among sheaves, and they will consume all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left. And Jerusalem will dwell again in her own place, in Jerusalem.
Zech. 12
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12:7
And Jehovah will save the tents of Judah first, so that the beauty of the house of David and the beauty of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.
Zech. 12
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12:8
In that day Jehovah will
adefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the
1Angel of Jehovah before them.
Zech. 12
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12:9
And in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that
acome against Jerusalem.
Zech. 12
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12:10
And I will
apour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
1bSpirit of grace and of supplications; and they will
2look upon Me, whom
3they have
4cpierced; and they will wail over Him with wailing as for an
5only dson and cry bitterly over Him with bitter crying as for a
5firstborn son.
Zech. 12
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12:11
In that day there will be great
awailing in Jerusalem, like the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of
bMegiddon.
Zech. 12
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12:12
And the land will
awail, every family by itself: the
1family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of
bNathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Zech. 12
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12:13
The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Zech. 12
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12:14
All the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
