Zechariah 13:8

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, against the man who is My Companion," declares the LORD of Hosts. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones. ⁸And in all the land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.⁹This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are My people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.'"

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two: Zechariah 11:6-9, Deuteronomy 28:49-68, Isaiah 65:12-15, Isaiah 66:4-6, Isaiah 66:24, Ezekiel 5:2-4, Ezekiel 5:12, Daniel 9:27, Malachi 3:1, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:5, Malachi 4:1-3, Matthew 3:10-12, Matthew 21:43, Matthew 21:44, Matthew 22:7, Matthew 23:35-37, Matthew 24:21, Luke 19:41-44, Luke 20:16-18, Luke 21:20-24, Luke 23:28-30, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, Revelation 8:7-12, Revelation 16:19

but: Zechariah 14:1, Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 6:13, Jeremiah 30:11, Joel 2:31, Joel 2:32, Amos 9:8, Amos 9:9, Matthew 24:22, Mark 13:20, Romans 9:27-29, Romans 11:1-5

Reciprocal: Isaiah 1:9 - a very Isaiah 24:15 - glorify Isaiah 30:17 - till ye Isaiah 48:10 - I have refined Jeremiah 42:2 - left Ezekiel 20:38 - I will purge Ezekiel 24:11 - that the filthiness Amos 9:4 - go Amos 9:10 - the sinners Zephaniah 3:12 - leave Zechariah 11:7 - I will Malachi 4:6 - lest Matthew 9:36 - as Matthew 21:41 - He will Luke 17:37 - wheresoever John 11:48 - and the Acts 15:16 - build again the tabernacle Revelation 8:9 - the third part of the creatures

Cross-References

Genesis 13:2
And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

Genesis 13:6
But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

Genesis 13:7
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left."

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 13:14
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west.

Genesis 13:17
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width-for I will give it to you."

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 45:24
Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith the Lord,.... Either in all the land of Israel, as Kimchi interprets it; or rather in all the world, as Aben Ezra and others; for this prophecy seems to have respect, not to the calamities of the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem, after the death of Christ, when a few were saved, a remnant according to the election of grace, yet so as by fire, for whose sake the days of tribulation were shortened; but to the external state of the church, and the trouble of it throughout Christendom, about the time of the destruction of antichrist:

two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; all hypocrites, formalists, and outward court worshippers; who seem as if they would be at this time two thirds of the professors of true religion; who will not be able to stand the hour of temptation that will come upon all the earth, to try the inhabitants of it; which will be the last struggle of the beast of Rome, Revelation 3:10 but will be twice dead, plucked up by the roots; will die to the profession of religion, and be cut off from the people of God, and have no more a name with them:

but the third shall be left therein; the few names in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments; the hundred forty and four thousand that will stand with Christ, and by him, on Mount Zion, being redeemed from among men, Revelation 3:4 compare with this Revelation 16:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In all the land, two parts therein shall be cut off and die - “In all the land of Israel,” says a Jewish interpreter; (Kimchi); “ - the land, in which the Good Shepherd had been slain and the sheep scattered, “that upon you.” our Lord had said, “may come all the righteous blood.” As David punished Moab, “with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive” 2 Samuel 8:2; and Ezekiel prophesied, “A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee” Ezekiel 5:12; so now, the greater part should be destroyed, but a remnant should be saved. “But the third part shall be left therein. Even so then at this present time also,” Paul says, “there is a remnant according to the election of grace” Romans 11:5. Osorius: “The third part only shall be saved from the common destruction; yet not so, that they should suppose that glory was to be obtained amid ease.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 13:8. Two parts therein shall be cut off — In the war with the Romans.

But the third shall be left — Those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be preserved alive; and not one of these perished in the siege, or afterwards, by those wars.