Zechariah 14:12

God will strike the nations that fought Jerusalem with a wasting plague, their flesh, eyes, and tongues consuming away. It matters because it portrays the certain, terrible judgment on those who oppose God and His people.

Cross-references · 28

• Ezek 39:17–20And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
• Isa 66:15–16For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
• Mic 4:11–13Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
• Ps 110:5–6The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
• Mic 7:16–17The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
• Ps 90:11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
• Ezek 38:18–22And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
• Zech 12:9And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
• Deut 28:59Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
• 2 Chr 21:18–19And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
• Lev 26:16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• Lev 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
• Isa 34:1–17Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
• Rev 9:5–6And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
• Zech 14:3Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Lev 26:21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
• Deut 28:22The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
• Ezek 39:4–6Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
• Lev 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
• 2 Chr 21:15And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
• Rev 17:16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
• Rev 16:1–21And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
• Rev 19:17–21And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
• Rev 18:6–8Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
• Acts 12:23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• Lev 26:18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
• Joel 3:1–2For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
• Mic 5:8–9And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

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