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 39:17–20You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal 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 on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.
• Isa 66:15–16For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
• Mic 4:11–13Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
• Ps 110:5–6The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
• Mic 7:16–17The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
• Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
• Ezek 38:18–22It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
• Zech 12:9It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
• Deut 28:59then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
• 2 Chr 21:18–19After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
• Lev 26:16I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
• Lev 26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
• Isa 34:1–17Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.
• Rev 9:5–6They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.
• Zech 14:3Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Lev 26:21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
• Deut 28:22Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
• Ezek 39:4–6You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
• Lev 26:28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
• 2 Chr 21:15and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”
• Rev 17:16The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
• Rev 16:1–21I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”
• Rev 19:17–21I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,
• Rev 18:6–8Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
• Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Lev 26:18“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
• Joel 3:1–2“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
• Mic 5:8–9The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

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