Zechariah 14:1

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."

Parallel Translations

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.

King James Version (1611)
Beholde, the day of the Lord commeth, and thy spoile shall be diuided in the midst of thee.

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

English Standard Version
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord , when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.

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.

Amplified Bible
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you (Jerusalem) 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Lamsa Translation
BEHOLD, the day of the LORD is coming, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

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.

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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

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.

English Revised Version
Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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:

Contextual Overview

¹ 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." ³But then God will march out against the godless nations and fight—a great war! That's the Day he'll take his stand on the Mount of Olives, facing Jerusalem from the east. The Mount of Olives will be split right down the middle, from east to west, leaving a wide valley. Half the mountain will shift north, the other half south. Then you will run for your lives down the valley, your escape route that will take you all the way to Azal. You'll run for your lives, just as you ran on the day of the great earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. Then my God will arrive and all the holy angels with him. ⁶What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God 's—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning.

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 sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Isaiah 11:11
Also on that day, the Master for the second time will reach out to bring back what's left of his scattered people. He'll bring them back from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Sinar, Hamath, and the ocean islands.

Ezekiel 32:24
"Elam is there in all her pride, a cemetery—all killed in battle, dumped in her heathen grave with the dead and buried, these people who terrorized the land of the living. They carry their shame with them, along with the others in the grave. They turned Elam into a resort for the pompous dead, landscaped with heathen graves, slaughtered in battle. They once terrorized the land of the living. Now they carry their shame down with the others in deep earth. They're in the section set aside for the slain in battle.

Zechariah 5:11
He said, "East to the land of Shinar. They will build a garage to house it. When it's finished, the basket will be stored there."

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.