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Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, my God, will come, <i>and</i> all the holy ones with Him! <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>For it will be a unique day which is known to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>And in that day living 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. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>God Will Be King over All</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will be king over all the earth; in that day the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will be <i>the only</i> one, and His name <i>the only</i> one. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamins Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the kings wine presses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Now this will be the plague with which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>It will come about in that day that a great panic from the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will fall on them; and they will seize one anothers hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>So also like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, there will be no rain on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no <i>rain will fall</i> on them; it will be the plague with which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>In that day there will <i>be inscribed</i> on the bells of the horses, HOLY TO THE LORD. And the cooking pots in the L<font size="1">ORDS</font> house will be like the bowls before the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/14-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts in that day. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/zechariah/14.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/zechariah/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/zechariah/14.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/zechariah/14.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/zechariah/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/zechariah/14.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/zechariah/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/light_at_evening_time.htm">Light at Evening Time</a><br></span><span class="snippet">This, then, shall be the subject of my present discourse. There are different evening times that happen to the church and to God's people, and as a rule we may rest quite certain that at evening time there shall be light. God very frequently acts in grace in such a manner that we can find a parallel in nature. For instance, God says, "As the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, even so shall my word be, it shall not return unto me void, it shall accomplish that which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/light_at_evening_time.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_62_1916/light_at_evening_time.htm">Light at Evening Time</a><br></span><span class="snippet">AS WE read the Scriptures, we are continually startled by fresh discoveries of the magnificence of God. Our attention is fixed upon a passage, and presently sparklets of fire and glory dart forth. It strikes us; we are struck by it. Hence these bright coruscations. Our admiration is excited. We could not have thought that so much light could possibly lie concealed within a few words. Our text thus reveals to us in a remarkable manner the penetration, the discernment, the clear-sightedness of God. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_62_1916/light_at_evening_time.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 62: 1916</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/a_peal_of_bells.htm">A Peal of Bells</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The text, as you perceive, deals with horses which were unclean under the Jewish law yet, in the day spoken of in the text, the horses themselves shall be purged from commonness or uncleanness, and their harness shall be dedicated to God as certainly as the vestments of the High Priest himself. It will be a happy day indeed when the men who deal with horses, too often a race anything but honest and upbeat shall exhibit in their common transactions a consecration to God, so that on the horses' furniture <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/a_peal_of_bells.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/the_faithful_promiser/24th_day_eventide_light.htm">24TH DAY. Eventide Light. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"He is Faithful that Promised." "At evening-time it shall be light."--ZECH. xiv. 7. Eventide Light. How inspiring the thought of coming glory! How would we rise above our sins, and sorrows, and sufferings, if we could live under the power of "a world to come!" Were faith to take at all times its giant leap beyond a soul-trammelling earth, and remember its brighter destiny. If it could stand on its Pisgah Mount, and look above and beyond the mists and vapours of this land of shadows, and rest on <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/the_faithful_promiser/24th_day_eventide_light.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Ross Macduff—</span><span class="citation2">The Faithful Promiser</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xlvii_that_all_troubles.htm">That all Troubles are to be Endured for the Sake of Eternal Life</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"My Son, let not the labours which thou hast undertaken for Me break thee down, nor let tribulations cast thee down in any wise, but let my promise strengthen and comfort thee in every event. I am sufficient to reward thee above all measure and extent. Not long shalt thou labour here, nor always be weighed down with sorrows. Wait yet a little while, and thou shalt see a speedy end of thine evils. An hour shall come when all labour and confusion shall cease. Little and short is all that passeth <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xlvii_that_all_troubles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas A Kempis—</span><span class="citation2">Imitation of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/howard/standards_of_life_and_service/xvi_sanctified_commonplaces.htm">Sanctified Commonplaces</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts.' (Zechariah xiv. 20, 21.) What I have to say may not strike some of you as setting forth any very high or exalted truth, but I am satisfied as to its being a very important matter. I want to talk to you about the sanctification of the commonplace things in life. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/howard/standards_of_life_and_service/xvi_sanctified_commonplaces.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">T. H. Howard—</span><span class="citation2">Standards of Life and Service</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_26_the_girdle_of.htm">The Girdle of the City. Nehemiah 3</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The beginning of the circumference was from 'the sheep-gate.' That, we suppose, was seated on the south part, yet but little removed from that corner, which looks south-east. Within was the pool of Bethesda, famous for healings. Going forward, on the south part, was the tower Meah: and beyond that, "the tower of Hananeel": in the Chaldee paraphrast it is, 'The tower Piccus,' Zechariah 14:10; Piccus, Jeremiah 31:38.--I should suspect that to be, the Hippic tower, were not that placed on the north <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_26_the_girdle_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_42_the_controversy_ended.htm">The Controversy Ended</a><br></span><span class="snippet">At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth. He is accompanied by the host of the redeemed and attended by a retinue of angels. As He descends in terrific majesty He bids the wicked dead arise to receive their doom. They come forth, a mighty host, numberless as the sands of the sea. What a contrast to those who were raised at the first resurrection! The righteous were clothed with immortal youth and beauty. The wicked bear the traces of disease and death. Every eye in that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_42_the_controversy_ended.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Great Controversy</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cole/trials_and_triumphs_of_faith/chapter_xiii_the_evening_light.htm">The Evening Light</a><br></span><span class="snippet">This chapter is an article written by the author many years after she had received light on the unity of the church. It will acquaint the reader with what is meant by the expression "evening light." "At evening time it shall be light." "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light" (Zechariah 14:6,7). The expression <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cole/trials_and_triumphs_of_faith/chapter_xiii_the_evening_light.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Mary Cole—</span><span class="citation2">Trials and Triumphs of Faith</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/three_inscriptions_with_one_meaning.htm">Three Inscriptions with one Meaning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it ... HOLINESS TO THE LORD.'--EXODUS xxviii. 36. 'In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.'--ZECH. xiv. 20. 'His name shall be in their foreheads.'--REV. xxii. 4. You will have perceived my purpose in putting these three widely separated texts together. They all speak of inscriptions, and they are all obviously connected with each other. The first of them comes from the ancient times of the institution <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/three_inscriptions_with_one_meaning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_8_the_river_of.htm">The River of Egypt, Rhinocorura. The Lake of Sirbon. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Pliny writes, "From Pelusium are the intrenchments of Chabrias: mount Casius: the temple of Jupiter Casius: the tomb of Pompey the Great: Ostracine: Arabia is bounded sixty-five miles from Pelusium: soon after begins Idumea and Palestine from the rising up of the Sirbon lake." Either my eyes deceive me, while I read these things,--or mount Casius lies nearer Pelusium, than the lake of Sirbon. The maps have ill placed the Sirbon between mount Casius and Pelusium. Sirbon implies burning; the name of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_8_the_river_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/zechariah/14-2.htm">Zechariah 14:2 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../zechariah/14-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Zechariah 14:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Zechariah 14:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../zechariah/14-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Zechariah 14:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Zechariah 14:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/zechariah/14-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>