Zechariah 12:3 Cross References - NSB

³ »It will happen in that day! I will make Jerusalem a heavy weight for all the people. All who lift it will be severely injured. All the nations of the earth will gather against her.«

¹⁴ When you see it, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like new grass. The power of Jehovah will be made known to his servants, but he will condemn his enemies. ¹⁵ Jehovah will come with fire and with his chariots like a thunderstorm. He will pay them back with his burning anger and punish them with flames of fire. ¹⁶ Jehovah will judge with fire, and he will judge all people with his sword. Jehovah will strike many people dead.

¹² »Nations and kingdoms that do not serve you will be destroyed. The nations will definitely be ruined.

¹ The word of Jehovah came to me: ² »Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. ³ The Lord Jehovah said: »I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. ⁴ »I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws. I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords. ⁵ »I will also bring out Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ⁶ »Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops and many peoples with you.« ⁷ »‘»Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. ⁸ »‘»After many days you will be summoned. In the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel that had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the nations, and all of them are living securely. ⁹ ‘»You will go up like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land. You your troops will have many peoples with you.«’ ¹⁰ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan. ¹¹ »»You will say: »I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are securely at rest. They live without walls and have no bars or gates.« ¹² »I will go to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world. ¹³ ‘»Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you: Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?«’ ¹⁴ »Prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »On that day when my people Israel are living securely, will you not know it? ¹⁵ »‘You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army. ¹⁶ »‘You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.«’ ¹⁷ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? ¹⁸ »‘It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,’ declares the Lord Jehovah, ‘that my fury will mount up in my anger. ¹⁹ »‘In my zeal and in my blazing wrath I proclaim that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. ²⁰ »‘The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the people who are on the face of the earth will shake at my presence! The mountains will be thrown down! The steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.’ ²¹ »‘I will call for a sword against Gog on all my mountains,’ declares the Lord Jehovah. ‘Every man's sword will be against his brother. ²² »‘With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment on him. I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone. ²³ »‘I will magnify myself, sanctify myself, and make myself known in the sight of many nations! Then they will know that I am Jehovah.’ (Matthew 6:9)

³⁴ »You watched while a stone was cut out without hands. It struck the statue upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. ³⁵ »The iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broke in pieces together. It became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors. The wind carried them away and no place was found for them. The stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

⁴⁴ »In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. Its sovereignty will not be entrusted to another people. It will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it will stand forever! ⁴⁵ »You saw a stone cut out of the mountain without hands. It broke the iron, brass, clay, silver, and the gold to pieces. The great God made known to the king what will happen in the future. The dream is certain, and the interpretation of it is sure.«

⁸ »I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah. And they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah has spoken it. ⁹ »Proclaim this among the nations! Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near let them come up. ¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong. ¹¹ »Hurry and come all you nations round about. Gather yourselves there and cause your mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah. ¹² »Let the nations be aroused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat (Jehovah’s Judgment)! I will sit there to judge all the nations round about. ¹³ »Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great. ¹⁴ »Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! The day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. ¹⁵ »The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars diminish their shining. ¹⁶ »Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

¹⁸ »The house of Jacob will be a fire! The house of Joseph will be a flame! The house of Esau will be for stubble and they will burn among them, and devour them. There will be no survivors of the house of Esau: for Jehovah has spoken!

¹¹ »Many nations are assembled against you! They say: ‘Let her be defiled, and let us gloat over it.’ ¹² »They do not know Jehovah’s thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor. ¹³ »Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion! I will make your horn like iron and I will make your hoofs like brass. You will pulverize many nations into pieces. I will devote their profit and wealth to Jehovah the Lord of the whole earth.«

⁸ »The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. It will be like a lion among the beasts of the forest. Should he go through he will be like a young lion among the flocks of sheep. He treads down and tears to pieces. There is none to rescue.

¹⁵ »In anger and rage I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed me.«

¹⁵ »I will show them marvelous things like the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁶ »The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might! They will cover their mouth with their hand and their ears will be deaf. ¹⁷ »They will lick up the dust like a serpent. They will come trembling out of their hole like crawling things of the earth. They will approach Jehovah our God with fear and be afraid because of you.«

¹⁷ »The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you. The destruction of the animals and shedding of blood will frighten you. The violence done to the inhabitants of the land and the city will terrify you.

¹⁹ »I will deal at that time with all your oppressors. I will save the lame and gather the outcast. I will turn their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.

²² »I will overthrow kingdoms and end their power. I will overturn chariots and their drivers; the horses will die, and their riders will kill one another.«

⁸ »Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: ‘He sent me after glory! He sent me to the nations that plundered you. For he that touches you touches the pupil of his eye.’ ⁹ »Behold! I will shake my hand (power) over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them.« Then you will know that Jehovah of Hosts has sent me.

³ »I am angry with the shepherds! I will punish the male goats. Jehovah of Hosts visited his flock, the house of Judah. He will make them as his majestic horse in the battle. ⁴ »The corner stone will come from them. The tent peg will come from them. Every ruler and the battle bow will come from them. ⁵ »They will be as mighty men treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets. They will fight in the battle! Because Jehovah is with them! The riders on horses will be confounded (confused) (bewildered).

⁴ »In that day,« said Jehovah, »I will strike every horse with terror and his rider with madness! I will watch the house of Judah. Every horse of the people will be struck with blindness.

⁶ »I will make the people of Judah like a pan of fire among wood and like a flaming torch among sheaves of grain. They will consume all the peoples on the right hand and on the left all around. The inhabitants of Jerusalem will again dwell in their own place, in Jerusalem.

⁸ »In that day Jehovah will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He that is feeble among them will be like David. For the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Jehovah before them. ⁹ »It will happen at that time. I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹¹ »That day will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon (Megiddo).

¹ »A fountain for sin and for uncleanness will be opened for the house of David.«

² »I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem! The city will be defeated. The houses will be plundered and the women raped! Half of the city will be taken into captivity. The remainder of the people will not be removed from the city. ³ »Then Jehovah will go forth and fight against those nations. It will be just as when he fought in the day of battle. ⁴ »His feet will stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half toward the east and toward the west. There will be a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

⁶ »It will happen! There will be no light for the bright ones will withdraw themselves!

⁸ »It will happen! Living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be both in the summer and in the winter. ⁹ »Jehovah will be King over all the earth. Jehovah will be the only one and his name will be the only one in that day.

¹³ »It will happen! A great tumult (trouble) (disturbance) from Jehovah will fall on them. Everyone of them will lay hold on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor (neighbor will fight against neighbor).

⁴⁴ »Any man falling on this stone will be broken. Any man having this stone fall on him will be crushed to dust.«

¹⁸ »Every one that falls on that stone shall be broken to pieces. Every one the stone falls on will be scattered as dust.«

¹⁴ They are demonic spirits, working signs, which go to the kings of the earth, of the whole world. They gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

¹² »The ten horns that you saw are ten kings. They have not yet received a kingdom. But they receive power (authority) (influence) as kings for one hour with the beast. ¹³ »They are united in one purpose (single-minded), and they will give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ »They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome (conquer) them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. Those who are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.«

¹⁹ I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. ²⁰ The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur. ²¹ The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the one who sat on the horse. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

⁸ Satan will go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of these is as the sand of the sea (too great to count). ⁹ They advanced over the broad plain of the earth, and encircled the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven and devoured (consumed) them.