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King James Version

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Day;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Day of the Lord;   Earthquakes;   Gathering;   Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;   Nations;   Saints;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat, Valley of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Remnant;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Adoption;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day of the Lord (Yahweh);   Joel (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tabernacles, Feast of;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Look, the Lord has a special day of judgment coming, when the riches you have taken will be divided in your city.
New American Standard Bible
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoils taken from you will be divided among you.
New Century Version
The Lord 's day of judging is coming when the wealth you have taken will be divided among you.
Update Bible Version
Look, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Amplified Bible
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you (Jerusalem) will be divided in your midst.
English Standard Version
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord , when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.
World English Bible
Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! daies comen, seith the Lord, and thi spuylis schulen be departid in the myddil of thee.
English Revised Version
Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord will have his day. And when it comes, everything that was ever taken from Jerusalem will be returned and divided among its people.
American Standard Version
Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Bible in Basic English
See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.
Complete Jewish Bible
Look, a day is coming for Adonai when your plunder, [Yerushalayim], will be divided right there within you.
Darby Translation
Behold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
King James Version (1611)
Beholde, the day of the Lord commeth, and thy spoile shall be diuided in the midst of thee.
New Living Translation
Watch, for the day of the Lord is coming when your possessions will be plundered right in front of you!
New Life Bible
A day of the Lord is coming when the things of much worth taken from you will be divided among you.
New Revised Standard
See, a day is coming for the Lord , when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your midst.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, and thy spoyle shall be deuided in the middes of thee.
George Lamsa Translation
BEHOLD, the day of the LORD is coming, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! a day, cometh, pertaining to Yahweh, - when apportioned shall be thy spoil in thy midst;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Revised Standard Version
Behold, a day of the LORD is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, and thy spoyle shalbe deuided in the middest of thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, the days of the Lord come, and thy spoils shall be divided in thee.
Good News Translation
The day when the Lord will sit in judgment is near. Then Jerusalem will be looted, and the loot will be divided up before your eyes.
Christian Standard Bible®
Look, a day belonging to the Lord is coming when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence.
Hebrew Names Version
Behold, a day of the LORD comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Lexham English Bible
Look! A day is coming for Yahweh, when your plunder will be divided in your midst.
Literal Translation
Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, and your spoil shall be divided among you.
Young's Literal Translation
Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, the daye of the LORDE cometh, that thou shalt be spoyled and robbed:
THE MESSAGE
Note well: God 's Judgment Day is on the way: "Plunder will be piled high and handed out. I'm bringing all the godless nations to war against Jerusalem— Houses plundered, women raped, Half the city taken into exile, the other half left behind."
New English Translation
A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.
New King James Version
[xr] Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.
Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, a day is coming for Yahweh when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

Contextual Overview

1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord , not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 13:9, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:14, Malachi 4:5, Acts 2:20, Revelation 16:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:28 - the twelve 1 Chronicles 19:16 - and drew Psalms 118:10 - All nations Isaiah 8:9 - Associate Isaiah 13:4 - noise Isaiah 29:7 - the multitude Isaiah 33:1 - when thou shalt cease Jeremiah 30:7 - for Jeremiah 50:11 - ye destroyers Ezekiel 38:17 - whom Daniel 11:32 - shall be Micah 4:12 - for he shall Zechariah 11:1 - that Zechariah 13:8 - but Zechariah 14:21 - in the Malachi 4:1 - the day Matthew 22:7 - he was Matthew 23:38 - General Luke 21:22 - all John 11:48 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 10:22
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 11:2
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Isaiah 22:6
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Isaiah 37:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Jeremiah 25:25
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
Zechariah 5:11
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,.... Or the day when the Lord will come, both in his spiritual and personal reign; for this is not to be understood of his first coming in the flesh, at which time none of the things after mentioned happened; nor of his coming to take vengeance on the Jews; but rather of his coming to convert them:

and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee; not the substance of the nations, divided by the Israelites in the midst of Jerusalem, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it; but the spoil of Jerusalem, when taken by the enemy, as is after said, which should be divided by them with great joy and triumph, in the midst of it: this refers not to the spoil of Jerusalem by Antiochus or the Romans, but to the slaying of the witnesses, and the triumph of their enemies over them, Revelation 11:7 or else to the spoil and prey the Turks will come to Jerusalem for, when it shall begin the possession of the Jews; and who perhaps at first will have some success; see Ezekiel 38:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold the Day of the Lord cometh - Literally, “a day cometh, the Lord’s,” in which He Himself shall be Judge, and no longer leave man to fulfill his own will, and despise God’s; in which His glory and holiness and the righteousness of all His ways shall be revealed.

And thy spoil shall be in the midst of thee - Jerome: “How great will the strait be, that the spoils should be divided in the midst of her. It often happens that what, by a sudden assault, is plundered in the city, is divided in the field or in solitude, lest the enemy should come upon them. But now there will be such a heavy weight of ills, such will be the security of conquest, that the spoils shall be divided in the midst of the city.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV

The commencement of this chapter relates to the destruction of

Jerusalem by the Romans, and to the calamities consequent on

that event. From this great Jewish tragedy the prophet

immediately passes to the utter extermination of the enemies of

Christianity in the latter days.

God will display his power in behalf of his people in a manner

so astonishing and miraculous, that even they themselves, and

much more their enemies, shall be struck with terror, 4, 5.

The national prosperity of the Jews shall then be permanent and

unmixed, 6, 7;

and these people shall be made the instruments of converting

many to the faith of the Messiah, 8, 9.

The great increase and prosperity of the Christian Church, the

New Jerusalem, is then described in terms accommodated to

Jewish ideas; and the most signal vengeance denounced against

all her enemies, 10-19.

From that happy period God's name will be honoured in every

thing, and his worship every where most reverently observe,

20, 21.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV

Verse Zechariah 14:1. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh — This appears to be a prediction of that war in which Jerusalem was finally destroyed, and the Jews scattered all over the face of the earth; and of the effects produced by it.


 
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