Zechariah 9:11

Because of the blood of the covenant, God will free His prisoners from the waterless pit. Covenant blood secures the release of God's captive people.

Cross-references · 29

• Isa 51:14The captive exile will speedily be freed; and he will not die and go down into the pit, and his bread will not fail.
• Exod 24:8Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
• Ps 102:19–21For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
• Isa 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
• Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
• 1 Cor 11:25In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
• Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
• Isa 49:9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
• Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Ps 107:10–16Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• Ps 69:33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
• Ps 30:3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
• Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
• Luke 22:20Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
• Isa 42:22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers; and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
• Isa 58:12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
• Deut 5:31But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.”
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• Heb 9:10–26being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Col 1:13–14who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
• Jer 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
• Rev 20:3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
• Dan 2:29as for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.
• 2 Sam 13:13As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
• 2 Chr 7:17“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
• Luke 16:24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

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