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Zechariah 14:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely. "
Zechariah 14:11
Verse in Context
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9 The LORD will be King over all the earth. In that day the LORD will be one, and his name one.
10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
12 This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
13 It will happen in that day that a great panic from the LORD will be among them; and they will each seize the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
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Zechariah 14:1
"Behold, a day of the LORD comes, when your plunder will be divided within you."
Zechariah 14:2
"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."
Zechariah 14:3
"Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle."
Zechariah 14:4
"His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south."
Zechariah 14:5
"You shall flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel. Yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. The LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with you."
Zechariah 14:6
"It will happen in that day that there will not be light, cold, or frost."
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