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Zechariah Chapter 8

Zechariah
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Zechariah

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In this chapter the people of Judah are warned that their idolatry and neglect of God will bring disaster, and God declares that He will punish them for their iniquities. He also promises that He will bring a day of restoration when they turn back to Him and follow His laws. The chapter emphasizes the seriousness of sin and the hope of divine mercy.

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(1) Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
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Zechariah 1:3

(2) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
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Zechariah 1:14Zechariah 1:15Zechariah 1:16Psalms 78:58Psalms 78:59Isaiah 42:13Isaiah 42:14Isaiah 59:17Isaiah 63:4Isaiah 63:5Isaiah 63:6Isaiah 63:15

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Numbers 5:14Zechariah 1:14Exodus 34:14Jeremiah 42:18I Kings 19:10I Kings 19:14

(3) Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
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Zechariah 1:16Jeremiah 30:10Jeremiah 30:11Zechariah 2:10Zechariah 2:11Isaiah 12:6Ezekiel 48:35Joel 3:17Joel 3:21John 1:14John 14:23II Corinthians 6:16

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Deuteronomy 4:11I Samuel 17:3I Samuel 23:26Jeremiah 26:18Jeremiah 51:25Ezekiel 20:40

(4) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
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I Samuel 2:31Job 5:26Job 42:17Isaiah 65:20Isaiah 65:21Isaiah 65:22Lamentations 2:20Lamentations 2:21Lamentations 2:22Lamentations 5:11Lamentations 5:12Lamentations 5:13

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Jeremiah 9:17Zechariah 1:3

(5) And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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Zechariah 2:4Psalms 128:3Psalms 128:4Psalms 144:12Psalms 144:13Psalms 144:14Psalms 144:15Jeremiah 30:19Jeremiah 30:20Jeremiah 31:27Jeremiah 33:11Lamentations 2:19

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Isaiah 15:3Psalms 144:13Isaiah 51:20

(6) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
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Genesis 18:14Numbers 11:22Numbers 11:23II Kings 7:2Jeremiah 32:17Jeremiah 32:27Luke 1:20Luke 1:37Luke 18:27Romans 4:20Romans 4:21Romans 6:19

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Zechariah 1:3Judges 8:10Isaiah 18:7Isaiah 22:14Jeremiah 46:10Haggai 2:9

(7) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
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Psalms 107:2Psalms 107:3Isaiah 11:11Isaiah 11:12Isaiah 11:13Isaiah 11:14Isaiah 11:15Isaiah 11:16Isaiah 27:12Isaiah 27:13Isaiah 43:5Isaiah 43:6

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Ezekiel 45:7Ezekiel 48:8Ruth 1:6I Kings 4:19Jeremiah 46:10Zechariah 6:6

(8) And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
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Jeremiah 3:17Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 23:8Jeremiah 32:41Ezekiel 37:25Joel 3:20Amos 9:14Amos 9:15Obadiah 1:17Obadiah 1:18Obadiah 1:19Obadiah 1:20

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Psalms 119:142Romans 9:30Romans 10:3

(9) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
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Zechariah 8:13Zechariah 8:18Joshua 1:6Joshua 1:8I Chronicles 22:13I Chronicles 28:20Isaiah 35:4Haggai 2:4Haggai 2:5Haggai 2:6Haggai 2:7Haggai 2:8

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Zechariah 1:3Haggai 2:4Zechariah 7:12Isaiah 44:28Zechariah 4:9Judges 8:10

(10) For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
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Haggai 1:6Haggai 1:7Haggai 1:8Haggai 1:9Haggai 1:10Haggai 1:11Haggai 2:16Haggai 2:17Haggai 2:18Judges 5:6Judges 5:7Judges 5:11

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Revelation 4:7Micah 1:7Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15

(11) But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Zechariah 8:8Zechariah 8:9Psalms 103:9Isaiah 11:13Isaiah 12:1Haggai 2:19Malachi 3:9Malachi 3:10Malachi 3:11

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Ezekiel 16:55Haggai 2:9Zechariah 7:12Zechariah 1:3

(12) For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
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Genesis 26:12Leviticus 26:4Leviticus 26:5Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:5Deuteronomy 28:6Deuteronomy 28:7Deuteronomy 28:8Deuteronomy 28:9Deuteronomy 28:10Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 28:12

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Deuteronomy 28:4Genesis 1:11Deuteronomy 28:11Genesis 1:12Genesis 1:29Genesis 22:17

(13) And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
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Deuteronomy 28:37Deuteronomy 29:23Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28I Kings 9:7I Kings 9:8II Chronicles 7:20II Chronicles 7:21II Chronicles 7:22

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Nehemiah 13:2Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(14) For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
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Zechariah 1:6Psalms 33:11Isaiah 14:24Jeremiah 31:28II Chronicles 36:16Jeremiah 4:28Jeremiah 15:1Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 15:3Jeremiah 15:4Jeremiah 15:5Jeremiah 15:6

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Zechariah 1:3Zechariah 7:12Judges 8:10Isaiah 18:7Isaiah 22:14Jeremiah 46:10

(15) So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
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Jeremiah 29:11Jeremiah 29:12Jeremiah 29:13Jeremiah 29:14Jeremiah 32:42Micah 4:10Micah 4:11Micah 4:12Micah 4:13Micah 7:18Micah 7:19Micah 7:20

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II Kings 4:26

(16) These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
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Deuteronomy 10:12Deuteronomy 10:13Deuteronomy 11:7Deuteronomy 11:8Micah 6:8Luke 3:8Luke 3:9Luke 3:10Luke 3:11Luke 3:12Luke 3:13Luke 3:14

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Proverbs 22:21Isaiah 65:16John 8:32John 8:44John 16:13John 17:17

(17) And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
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Zechariah 7:10Proverbs 3:29Proverbs 6:14Jeremiah 4:14Micah 2:1Micah 2:2Micah 2:3Matthew 5:28Matthew 12:35Matthew 15:19Zechariah 5:3Zechariah 5:4

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Luke 6:32I Kings 8:31II Chronicles 6:22Matthew 5:43Hosea 3:1Mark 12:33

(18) And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
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Zechariah 1:3

(19) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
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II Kings 25:3II Kings 25:4Jeremiah 39:2Jeremiah 52:6Jeremiah 52:7Zechariah 7:3Jeremiah 52:12Jeremiah 52:13Jeremiah 52:14Jeremiah 52:15Zechariah 7:5II Kings 25:25

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Mark 2:18Esther 4:16Isaiah 58:4Isaiah 58:5Matthew 6:16Matthew 9:14

(20) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
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Zechariah 2:11Zechariah 14:16Zechariah 14:17I Kings 8:41I Kings 8:43II Chronicles 6:32II Chronicles 6:33Psalms 22:27Psalms 67:1Psalms 67:2Psalms 67:3Psalms 67:4

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Zechariah 1:3

(21) And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
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Psalms 122:1Psalms 122:2Psalms 122:3Psalms 122:4Psalms 122:5Psalms 122:6Psalms 122:7Psalms 122:8Psalms 122:9Hosea 6:3Zechariah 7:2Psalms 103:22

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Zephaniah 2:3Zechariah 1:3

(22) Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
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Isaiah 25:7Isaiah 55:5Isaiah 60:3Isaiah 60:4Isaiah 60:5Isaiah 60:6Isaiah 60:7Isaiah 60:8Isaiah 60:9Isaiah 60:10Isaiah 60:11Isaiah 60:12

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Haggai 2:4Zephaniah 2:3Isaiah 28:7Zechariah 8:9Zechariah 1:3

(23) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
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Genesis 31:7Genesis 31:41Numbers 14:22Job 19:3Ecclesiastes 11:2Micah 5:5Matthew 18:21Matthew 18:22Isaiah 66:18Revelation 7:9Revelation 7:10Revelation 14:6

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Judges 9:49Ezekiel 41:6I Samuel 15:27Zechariah 1:6Zechariah 1:3

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