“Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.
- BSB “Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”
- NKJV “Fearnot, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
- NASB “Do not fear, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”
- NLT “Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem. Look, your King is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”
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- Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Isa 62:11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’”
- Zeph 3:16–17In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
- Isa 35:4–5Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
- 2 Sam 16:2The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
- Zech 2:9–11For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.
- Isa 41:14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- Deut 17:16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
- Mic 4:8You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
- Judg 12:14He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.
- 1 Kgs 1:33The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
- Judg 5:10“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.
- Isa 40:9–10You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
- Matt 2:2–6“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
- 2 Sam 15:1After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
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