Zechariah 14

The Destroyers of Jerusalem Destroyed

¹Behold, a day of Yahweh is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence. ²For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

• ZECH 14:1[NOTE]BLACK HERE. Only where God says I or My is red, 14:2 and 14:5.

³Then Yahweh will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. ⁴On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south. ⁵You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

• ZECH 14:3[PROPHECY]His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, and the Mount of Olives shall split in two → STILL TO COME
• ZECH 14:4[NOTE]THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. See The Mount of Olives Splits.
• ZECH 14:5[PROPHECY]Yahweh would come and all His holy ones with Him → STILL TO COME
• ZECH 14:5[NOTE]THE EARTHQUAKE. More than 200 years later people still remembered it. See Amos's Earthquake, Amos.

⁶On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. ⁷It will be a unique day known only to Yahweh, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

⁸And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike. ⁹On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth—Yahweh alone, and His name alone.

• ZECH 14:8[PROPHECY]Living water would flow out from Jerusalem toward both seas → STILL TO COMEMEDIUM
• ZECH 14:8[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → JN 7:38
• ZECH 14:8[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → REV 22:1
• ZECH 14:9[PROPHECY]Yahweh would become King over all the earth → STILL TO COME

¹⁰All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. ¹¹People will live there, and never again will there be an utter destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell securely.

¹²And this will be the plague with which Yahweh strikes all the peoples who have warred 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 Yahweh will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other. ¹⁴Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance. ¹⁵And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

All Nations Will Worship the King// Leviticus 23:33–44; Nehemiah 8:13–18

¹⁶Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁷And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them. ¹⁸And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which Yahweh strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁹This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

• ZECH 14:16[PROPHECY]Everyone left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King and keep the Feast of Tabernacles → STILL TO COME
• ZECH 14:16[NOTE]THE FEAST OF BOOTHS. Israel lived in huts to remember the desert years, Leviticus 23:42 to 43.

²⁰On that day, HOLY TO YAHWEH will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of Yahweh will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar. ²¹Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Hosts.

• ZECH 14:20[NOTE]HOLY TO YAHWEH. The words on the high priest's gold plate, Exodus 28:36.
• ZECH 14:21[NOTE]NO CANAANITE. The Hebrew word can also mean trader. Jesus drove the sellers out of the temple, John 2:16.