Zechariah 12:9

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On that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, declares the Lord.
  • Hag 2:22 : 22 I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
  • Zech 12:2 : 2 Behold, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations. Even Judah will be besieged as Jerusalem is attacked.
  • Zech 14:2-3 : 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city will be captured, the houses will be plundered, and the women violated. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights in a day of battle.

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  • Zech 12:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2Behold, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations. Even Judah will be besieged as Jerusalem is attacked.

    3And on that day, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who try to lift it will be severely injured, and all the nations of the earth will gather against her.

    4On that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the nations with blindness.

  • Zech 12:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    6On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a fire pot in a woodpile and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left, while Jerusalem will remain secure in her place.

    7The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not exceed that of Judah.

    8On that day, the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord going before them.

  • Zech 14:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when your plunder will be divided in your midst.

    2For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city will be captured, the houses will be plundered, and the women violated. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

    3Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights in a day of battle.

    4On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very great valley, so that half of the mountain will move northward and the other half southward.

  • Amos 9:10-12
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    76%

    10All the sinners of My people will die by the sword, those who say, 'Disaster shall not overtake or confront us.'

    11On that day, I will raise up the fallen booth of David. I will repair its breaches and restore its ruins, and I will rebuild it as it was in days of old.

    12So that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by My name, declares the Lord who does this.

  • Zech 14:11-14
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    75%

    11And people will live in it, and there will no longer be any curse of destruction. Jerusalem will dwell in security.

    12This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

    13On that day, a great panic from the Lord will come upon them. Each will seize the hand of his neighbor, and they will attack one another.

    14Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations—gold, silver, and clothing—will be gathered in great abundance.

  • Zech 12:10-11
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    10And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

    11On that day, the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

  • Jer 9:11
    75%

    11Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?

  • Jer 13:9
    75%

    9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Mic 4:11
    74%

    11But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

  • Jer 1:15
    74%

    15For I am summoning all the clans and kingdoms of the north,' declares the LORD. 'They will come, and each will set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, around all her walls, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • Joel 3:1-2
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    1For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem.

    2I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them concerning my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up my land.

  • Jer 12:14
    74%

    14This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.'

  • Zech 8:22
    73%

    22And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.

  • Isa 13:9
    73%

    9See, the day of the LORD is coming—a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and to destroy the sinners within it.

  • Zech 14:16
    73%

    16Then all who survive from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

  • 2 Kgs 19:31
    73%

    31For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

  • Jer 3:17
    73%

    17At that time they will call Jerusalem the Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

  • Ps 118:10
    72%

    10All the nations surrounded me; in the name of the Lord, I cut them off.

  • Zech 2:9
    72%

    9'And I will be a wall of fire around her,' declares the LORD, 'and I will be the glory within her.'

  • Isa 10:12
    72%

    12When the Lord has finished all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will punish the pride of the king of Assyria's heart and the glory of his haughty eyes.

  • Zech 9:10
    72%

    10I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow will be broken, and he will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

  • Hag 2:22
    72%

    22I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

  • Isa 10:32
    72%

    32Today, they will halt at Nob; they shake their fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 12:12
    72%

    12On all the barren heights in the wilderness, destroyers have come. For the sword of the LORD is devouring from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.

  • Isa 25:7
    72%

    7On this mountain, he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations.

  • Mic 7:12
    72%

    12On that day, people will come to you from Assyria and the fortified cities, from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

  • Jer 19:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7In this place, I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hands of those who seek their lives. I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth.

    8I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

  • Isa 13:15
    72%

    15Whoever is found will be pierced through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

  • Isa 37:32
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    32For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

  • Zeph 1:12
    72%

    12At that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who settle like wine on its dregs, and say to themselves, 'The Lord will do neither good nor harm.'

  • Isa 31:9
    72%

    9Their stronghold will pass away because of terror, and their officers will flee in panic at the signal. This is the declaration of the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

  • Luke 19:43
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    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

  • Isa 18:7
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    7At that time, gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared far and wide, a mighty and conquering nation divided by rivers, to the place of the name of the LORD of Hosts, to Mount Zion.

  • Zeph 3:8
    71%

    8Therefore, wait for me, declares the LORD, until the day I rise to testify. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation—all the burning heat of my anger. For in the fire of my jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed.

  • 2 Kgs 21:13
    71%

    13I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.