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Myles Coverdale Bible

Zechariah 14:1

Beholde, the daye of the LORDE cometh, that thou shalt be spoyled and robbed:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Day;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Day of the Lord;   Earthquakes;   Gathering;   Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;   Nations;   Saints;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat, Valley of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Remnant;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Adoption;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day of the Lord (Yahweh);   Joel (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tabernacles, Feast of;  

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.
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.
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.
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 Beholde, the daye of the LORDE cometh, that thou shalt be spoyled and robbed: 2 for I wil gather together all the Heithen, to fight agaynst Ierusalem: so that the cite shalbe wonne, the houses spoyled, and the women defyled. The half of the cite shal go awaye in to captiuyte, and the residue of the people shal not be caried out of the cite. 3 After that shall the LORDE go forth to fight agaynst those Heithen, as men vse to fight in the daye of batell. 4 The shall his fete stode vpo the mount oliuete, that lieth vpon the east syde of Ierusale. And ye mount olyuete shal cleue in two, eastwarde, & westwarde so yt there shal be a greate valley: & the halff mount shal remoue towarde the north, and the other half towarde the south. 5 And ye shall fle vnto the valley of my hilles, for the valley off the hylles shal reach vnto Asal. Yee fle shall ye. like as ye fled for the earthquake in the dayes off Osias kynge of Iuda. And the LORDE my God shal come, and all sanctes with him. 6 In that daye shal it not be light, but colde and frost. 7 This shalbe that specyall daye, which is knowne vnto the LORDE: nether daye ner night, but aboute the euenynge tyme it shalbe 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
And these are his children: Ela, Assur, Arphachad, Lud & Aram.
Genesis 11:2
Now as they wente towarde the East, they founde a playne in ye londe of Synear, & there they dwelt,
Isaiah 11:11
At the same tyme shal the LORDE take in honde agayne, to conquere ye remnaunt of his people (which are lefft alyue) From the Assirias, Egiptians, Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Caldeyes, Antiochias and Ilodes of the see.
Isaiah 21:2
Who so maye disceaue (sayde the voyce) let him disceaue: Who so maye distroye, let him distroye. Vp Elam, besege it o Madai, for I will still all their gronynges.
Isaiah 22:6
I sawe the Elamites take the quyuers to carte and to horse, and that the walles were bare from harnesse.
Isaiah 37:12
Were the people of the Getiles (whom my progenitours coquered) deliuered at eny tyme thorow their goddes? As namely, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, & the childre of Eden, which dwell at Thalassar.
Jeremiah 25:25
all the kinges of Simri, all the kinges of Elam, all ye kinges of the Meedes,
Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam also with all his people, and their graues rounde aboute: which all beynge wounded and slayne with the swearde, are gone downe vncircumcised vnder the earth, which neuertheles somtyme brought feare in to the londe off the lyuynge: for the which they beare their shame, with the other that be gone downe to ye graue.
Daniel 1:2
and the LORDE delyuered Ioachim the kynge off Iuda in to his honde, with certayne ornamentes of the house off God, which he caried awaye vnto the londe of Sennar, to the house of his god and there brought them in to his gods treasury.
Zechariah 5:11
And he sayde vnto me: in to the londe of Synear, to buylde them an house: which when it is prepared, the measure shall be set there in his place.

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.


 
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