Zechariah 9 (NET)

Zechariah 9:1¹This is an oracle, the Lord ’s message concerning the land of Hadrach, with its focus on Damascus: The eyes of all humanity, especially of the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 1:3-5Isa 9:8-21Jer 49:23-27Ps 25:152 Chr 20:12Amos 3:12Gen 14:15Isa 13:1Isa 17:1-3Isa 17:7-8

Zechariah 9:2²as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:12Jer 49:23Ezek 28:2-51 Kgs 17:92 Kgs 23:332 Kgs 25:21Amos 1:9-10Amos 6:14Ezek 26:1-21Ezek 28:21-26

Zechariah 9:3³Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 27:33Ezek 28:4-5Job 27:16Josh 19:292 Sam 24:71 Kgs 10:27Isa 23:8Job 22:24

Zechariah 9:4⁴Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea—she will be consumed by fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:18Amos 1:10Ezek 26:17Ezek 26:3-5Ezek 27:26-36Ezek 28:16Ezek 28:2Ezek 28:8Isa 23:1-7Joel 3:8

Zechariah 9:5⁵Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 8:26Jer 47:1Rev 18:9-17Zeph 2:4-7Ezek 25:15-17Ezek 26:15-21Isa 14:29-31Isa 20:5-6Jer 47:4-7Phil 1:20

Zechariah 9:6⁶A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 1:81 Pet 5:5Zeph 2:10Dan 4:37Eccl 2:18-21Eccl 6:2Isa 2:12-17Isa 23:9Isa 28:1

Zechariah 9:7⁷I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:281 Chr 11:4-61 Chr 21:15-22:11 Sam 17:34-362 Sam 24:16-23Amos 3:12Ezek 16:57-61Isa 11:12-14Isa 19:23-25Isa 49:22-23

Zechariah 9:8⁸Then 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 54:14Isa 52:1Isa 60:18Jer 31:12Joel 3:16-172 Sam 16:12Amos 9:15Dan 11:27-29Dan 11:40-45Exod 3:9

Zechariah 9:9⁹Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you: He is legitimate and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey — on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:4-7Zeph 3:14-15John 12:13-16Zech 2:10Jer 23:5-6Luke 19:37-38Isa 43:11Mark 11:7Isa 62:11Luke 19:30-35

Zechariah 9:10¹⁰I will remove the chariot from Ephraim and the warhorse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be removed. Then he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 10:4-5Hos 1:7Hos 2:18Col 1:20-21Ps 72:7-11Rev 11:15Eph 2:13-17Isa 49:6Isa 57:18-19Isa 60:12

Zechariah 9:11¹¹Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:14Exod 24:8Ps 102:19-21Isa 42:7Matt 26:281 Cor 11:25Isa 49:9Ps 40:2Heb 10:29Isa 61:1

Zechariah 9:12¹²Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 42:10Isa 61:7Lam 3:21-22Heb 6:18Isa 40:2Jer 31:17Jer 51:10Nah 1:7Hos 2:15Joel 3:16

Zechariah 9:13¹³I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow. I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and I will make you, Zion, like a warrior’s sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 17:14Isa 49:2Zech 10:3-7Joel 3:6-8Ps 45:3Rev 19:15Zech 1:21Zech 12:2-81 Cor 1:21-282 Cor 10:3-5

Zechariah 9:14¹⁴Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Sovereign Lord will blow the trumpet and will proceed in the southern storm winds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:14Isa 66:15Hab 3:11Isa 21:1Isa 27:13Ps 144:5-6Zech 14:3Zech 2:5Isa 30:302 Cor 10:4-5

Zechariah 9:15¹⁵The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink and will become noisy like drunkards, full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 12:6Zech 10:7Exod 27:2Ps 78:65Zech 10:5Zech 12:8Lev 4:18Lev 4:25Rev 19:13-211 Cor 1:18

Zechariah 9:16¹⁶On that day the Lord their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 62:3John 10:27Ezek 34:31Hag 2:23Luke 12:32Ezek 34:22-26Ps 100:31 Pet 5:2-4Isa 40:10Isa 60:14

Zechariah 9:17¹⁷How precious and fair! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:8-11Isa 33:17Isa 62:8-9Exod 15:11Ps 31:19Ps 36:7Ps 45:2Ps 50:2Ps 90:17Rev 5:12-14