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Zechariah 14:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, on them there will be no rain. "
Zechariah 14:17
Verse in Context
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15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps.
16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
17 It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
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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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