Zechariah 12:4

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On that day,” says the LORD,“I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with madness. I will pay close attention to the house of Judah, but will strike all the horses of the nations with blindness.

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  • Deut 28:28 : 28 The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.
  • Zech 12:3 : 3 Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured; yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it.
  • Zech 12:6 : 6 On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like an igniter among sticks and a burning torch among sheaves, and they will burn up all the surrounding nations right and left. Then the people of Jerusalem will settle once more in their place, the city of Jerusalem.
  • Zech 12:8-9 : 8 On that day the LORD himself will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like mighty David, and the dynasty of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them. 9 So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
  • Zech 12:11 : 11 On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
  • Zech 14:15 : 15 This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
  • 2 Kgs 6:14 : 14 So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 As they approached him, Elisha prayed to the LORD,“Strike these people with blindness.” The LORD struck them with blindness as Elisha requested.
  • 2 Chr 6:20 : 20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
  • 2 Chr 6:40 : 40 “Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
  • 2 Chr 7:15 : 15 Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
  • Neh 1:6 : 6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you– both I myself and my family have sinned.
  • Ps 76:5-7 : 5 The bravehearted were plundered; they“fell asleep.” All the warriors were helpless. 6 At the sound of your battle cry, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse“fell asleep.” 7 You are awesome! Yes, you! Who can withstand your intense anger?
  • Isa 24:21 : 21 The Lord Will Become King At that time the LORD will punish the heavenly forces in the heavens and the earthly kings on the earth.
  • Isa 37:17 : 17 Pay attention, LORD, and hear! Open your eyes, LORD, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!
  • Jer 24:6 : 6 I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.
  • Ezek 38:4 : 4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, all of them armed with swords.
  • Ezek 39:20 : 20 You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the soldiers,’ declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Dan 9:18 : 18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.
  • Zech 9:8 : 8 Then I will surround my temple to protect it like a guard from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.
  • Zech 10:5 : 5 And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.

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