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Zechariah 14:3

But 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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Thompson Chain Reference - Battle of Life;   Battles, God;   Protector, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Day of the Lord;   Earthquakes;   Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;   Saints;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tabernacles, Feast of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as he fights on a day of battle.
Hebrew Names Version
Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
King James Version (1611)
Then shall the Lord goe forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battel.
King James Version
Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
English Standard Version
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.
New Century Version
Then the Lord will go to war against those nations; he will fight as in a day of battle.
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall the Lord goe foorth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battell.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, as the day when He fights on a day of battle.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord will attack those nations like a warrior fighting in battle.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Adonai will go out and fight against those nations, fighting as on a day of battle.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah will go forth and fight with those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord will go to war with those nations. It will be a real battle.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the LORD shall go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle.
Good News Translation
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past.
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, like when he fights on a day of battle.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah shall go out and fight against those nations, like the day He fought in the day of battle.
American Standard Version
Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fighteth in the day of battle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
After that, shall the Lorde go foorth to fight against those heathen, as men vse to fight in the day of battaile.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord shall go forth, and fight with those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of war.
English Revised Version
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
World English Bible
Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord schal go out, and schal fiyte ayens tho folkis, as he fauyte in the dai of strijf.
Update Bible Version
Then shall Yahweh go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then will the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
New English Translation
Then the Lord will go to battle and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days.
New King James Version
Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
New Living Translation
Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past.
New Life Bible
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.
New Revised Standard
Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then will Yahweh go forth, and fight against those nations, - just as he did in the day when he fought, in the day of battle;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Young's Literal Translation
And gone forth hath Jehovah, And He hath fought against those nations, As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After that shall the LORDE go forth to fight agaynst those Heithen, as men vse to fight in the daye of batell.

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

Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 2:9, Zechariah 10:4, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 12:2-6, Zechariah 12:9, Isaiah 63:1-6, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:16, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 2:45, Joel 3:2, Joel 3:9-17, Zephaniah 3:19, Haggai 2:21, Haggai 2:22, Revelation 6:4-17, Revelation 8:7-13

as: Exodus 15:1-6, Joshua 10:42, 2 Chronicles 20:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:7 - them that 2 Samuel 10:15 - gathered 2 Samuel 11:1 - David sent 1 Chronicles 5:22 - the war was of God Nehemiah 4:20 - our God Isaiah 14:2 - whose captives they were Isaiah 31:4 - so shall Isaiah 34:2 - the indignation Isaiah 49:25 - I will contend Isaiah 54:15 - shall fall Ezekiel 5:8 - even I Ezekiel 30:3 - the time Ezekiel 38:7 - General Ezekiel 38:15 - and many Hosea 10:10 - and the Joel 3:11 - Assemble Micah 4:3 - and rebuke Zephaniah 3:8 - to gather Zechariah 9:14 - seen Zechariah 12:3 - in that Zechariah 14:12 - the plague wherewith Zechariah 14:21 - in the Matthew 21:41 - He will Matthew 24:7 - nation shall Matthew 24:21 - General Luke 21:10 - Nation shall Revelation 11:18 - the nations Revelation 16:16 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall the Lord go forth,.... Out of his place in heaven, either in person, or by the display of his power; that is, the Lord Jesus Christ; whose name is called the Word of God, and is the King of kings, and Lord of lords, described as a mighty warrior,

Revelation 19:11, c.:

and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle: the Targum adds, "at the Red Sea" when the Lord fought for, Israel against the Egyptians, Exodus 14:25 and afterwards against the Canaanites, when they entered the land of Canaan under Joshua: thus Christ shall judge, and make war in righteousness, and overcome those that shall make war with him; and with the sharp sword that goeth out of his mouth shall smite nations, and with a rod of iron rule them, and break them to shivers, Revelation 14:14 see also

Ezekiel 38:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord shall go forth and shall fight - Jerome: “Is to be taken like that in Habakkuk, ‘Thou wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people, for salvation with Thine Anointed” Habakkuk 3:13, and in Micah, ‘For behold, the Lord cometh forth out of His place, and will come down and will tread upon the high places of the earth, and the mountains shall be molten under Him, and the valleys shall be cleft” Micah 1:3-4; and Isaiah also, “The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man; He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; He shall cry; He shall prevail over His enemies” Isaiah 42:13. “God is said to ‘go forth,’ when by some wondrous deed He declares His Presence - His Deity is, as it were, laid up, so long as He holds Himself in, and does not by any token show His power. But He ‘goes forth,’ and bursts forth, when He exercises some judgment, and worketh some new work, which striketh terror.” God then will “go forth out of His place,” when He is constrained to break through His quietness and gentleness and clemency, for the amendment of sinners. He who elsewhere speaketh through the prophet, ‘I, the Lord, change not’ Malachi 3:6, and to whom it is said, ‘Thou art the same’ Psalms 102:28, and in the Epistle of James, ‘With whom is no change’ James 1:17, now ‘goeth forth’ and fighteth ‘as in the day of battle,’ when He overwhelmed Pharaoh in the Red sea; and ‘fought for Israel.’” “The Lord shall fight for you,” became the watchword of Moses Exodus 14:14; Deuteronomy 1:30; 13:22; Deuteronomy 20:4 and the warrior Joshua in his old age (Joshua 23:10; compare Joshua 10:14, Joshua 10:42; Joshua 23:3), after his life’s experience Joshua 10:14, Joshua 10:42; Joshua 23:3, and Nehemiah. “Be not afraid by reason of this great multitude” Nehemiah 4:20, said Jahaziel, son of Zachariah, when the “Spirit of the Lord came upon” him; “for the battle is not your’s, but God’s” 2 Chronicles 20:15.

As He fought in the day of battle - Osorius: “All wars are so disposed by the power of God, that every victory is to be referred to His counsel and will. But this is not seen so clearly, when people, elate and confident, try to transfer to themselves all or the greater part of the glory of war. Then may the war be eminently said to be the Lord’s, when no one drew sword, as it is written, “The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace” Exodus 14:14. Of all God’s wars, in which human insolence could claim no part of the glory, none was more wondrous than that, in which Pharaoh and his army were sunk in the deep. “The Lord,” said Moses Exodus 15:3, “is a man of war: the Lord is His Name.” “That day of battle” was the image of one much greater. In that, Pharaoh’s army was sunk in the deep; in this, the power of evil, in Hell: in that, what could in some measure be conquered by human strength, was subdued; in this, a tyranny unconquerable; in that, a short-lived liberty was set up; the liberty brought by Christ through subdual of the enemy, is eternal. As then the image yields to the truth, earthly goods to heavenly, things perishable to eternal, so the glory of that ancient victory sinks to nothing under the greatness of the latter.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:3. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations — Against the Romans, by means of the northern nations; who shall destroy the whole empire of this once mistress of the world. But this is an obscure place.


 
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