Zechariah 14:1

Bible in Basic English

See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look, a day belonging to the Lord is coming when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence.

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, a day of the LORD comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

King James Version (1611)
Beholde, the day of the Lord commeth, and thy spoile shall be diuided in the midst of thee.

King James Version
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

English Standard Version
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord , when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.

New American Standard Bible
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoils taken from you will be divided among you.

New Century Version
The Lord 's day of judging is coming when the wealth you have taken will be divided among you.

Amplified Bible
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you (Jerusalem) will be divided in your midst.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, and thy spoyle shall be deuided in the middes of thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, a day is coming for Yahweh when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

Berean Standard Bible
Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will have his day. And when it comes, everything that was ever taken from Jerusalem will be returned and divided among its people.

Complete Jewish Bible
Look, a day is coming for Adonai when your plunder, [Yerushalayim], will be divided right there within you.

Darby Translation
Behold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Look, the Lord has a special day of judgment coming, when the riches you have taken will be divided in your city.

George Lamsa Translation
BEHOLD, the day of the LORD is coming, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

Good News Translation
The day when the Lord will sit in judgment is near. Then Jerusalem will be looted, and the loot will be divided up before your eyes.

Lexham English Bible
Look! A day is coming for Yahweh, when your plunder will be divided in your midst.

Literal Translation
Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, and your spoil shall be divided among you.

American Standard Version
Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, and thy spoyle shalbe deuided in the middest of thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, the days of the Lord come, and thy spoils shall be divided in thee.

English Revised Version
Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

World English Bible
Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! daies comen, seith the Lord, and thi spuylis schulen be departid in the myddil of thee.

Update Bible Version
Look, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

New English Translation
A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.

New King James Version
[xr] Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.

New Living Translation
Watch, for the day of the Lord is coming when your possessions will be plundered right in front of you!

New Life Bible
A day of the Lord is coming when the things of much worth taken from you will be divided among you.

New Revised Standard
See, a day is coming for the Lord , when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your midst.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! a day, cometh, pertaining to Yahweh, - when apportioned shall be thy spoil in thy midst;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Revised Standard Version
Behold, a day of the LORD is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, the daye of the LORDE cometh, that thou shalt be spoyled and robbed:

THE MESSAGE
Note well: God 's Judgment Day is on the way: "Plunder will be piled high and handed out. I'm bringing all the godless nations to war against Jerusalem— Houses plundered, women raped, Half the city taken into exile, the other half left behind."

Contextual Overview

¹ See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes. ² For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town. ³ Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight. ⁴ And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. ⁵ And the valley will be stopped Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him. ⁶ And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice; ⁷ And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 13:9, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:14, Malachi 4:5, Acts 2:20, Revelation 16:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:28 - the twelve 1 Chronicles 19:16 - and drew Psalms 118:10 - All nations Isaiah 8:9 - Associate Isaiah 13:4 - noise Isaiah 29:7 - the multitude Isaiah 33:1 - when thou shalt cease Jeremiah 30:7 - for Jeremiah 50:11 - ye destroyers Ezekiel 38:17 - whom Daniel 11:32 - shall be Micah 4:12 - for he shall Zechariah 11:1 - that Zechariah 13:8 - but Zechariah 14:21 - in the Malachi 4:1 - the day Matthew 22:7 - he was Matthew 23:38 - General Luke 21:22 - all John 11:48 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 10:22
These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

Genesis 11:2
And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

Isaiah 11:11
And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

Isaiah 21:2
A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.

Isaiah 22:6
And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.

Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Jeremiah 25:25
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:

Daniel 1:2
And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.

Zechariah 5:11
And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,.... Or the day when the Lord will come, both in his spiritual and personal reign; for this is not to be understood of his first coming in the flesh, at which time none of the things after mentioned happened; nor of his coming to take vengeance on the Jews; but rather of his coming to convert them:

and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee; not the substance of the nations, divided by the Israelites in the midst of Jerusalem, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it; but the spoil of Jerusalem, when taken by the enemy, as is after said, which should be divided by them with great joy and triumph, in the midst of it: this refers not to the spoil of Jerusalem by Antiochus or the Romans, but to the slaying of the witnesses, and the triumph of their enemies over them, Revelation 11:7 or else to the spoil and prey the Turks will come to Jerusalem for, when it shall begin the possession of the Jews; and who perhaps at first will have some success; see Ezekiel 38:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold the Day of the Lord cometh - Literally, “a day cometh, the Lord’s,” in which He Himself shall be Judge, and no longer leave man to fulfill his own will, and despise God’s; in which His glory and holiness and the righteousness of all His ways shall be revealed.

And thy spoil shall be in the midst of thee - Jerome: “How great will the strait be, that the spoils should be divided in the midst of her. It often happens that what, by a sudden assault, is plundered in the city, is divided in the field or in solitude, lest the enemy should come upon them. But now there will be such a heavy weight of ills, such will be the security of conquest, that the spoils shall be divided in the midst of the city.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV

The commencement of this chapter relates to the destruction of

Jerusalem by the Romans, and to the calamities consequent on

that event. From this great Jewish tragedy the prophet

immediately passes to the utter extermination of the enemies of

Christianity in the latter days.

God will display his power in behalf of his people in a manner

so astonishing and miraculous, that even they themselves, and

much more their enemies, shall be struck with terror, 4, 5.

The national prosperity of the Jews shall then be permanent and

unmixed, 6, 7;

and these people shall be made the instruments of converting

many to the faith of the Messiah, 8, 9.

The great increase and prosperity of the Christian Church, the

New Jerusalem, is then described in terms accommodated to

Jewish ideas; and the most signal vengeance denounced against

all her enemies, 10-19.

From that happy period God's name will be honoured in every

thing, and his worship every where most reverently observe,

20, 21.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV

Verse Zechariah 14:1. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh — This appears to be a prediction of that war in which Jerusalem was finally destroyed, and the Jews scattered all over the face of the earth; and of the effects produced by it.