Zechariah 14:13

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11 The people shall dwell in it;
And ^ano longer shall there be utter destruction,
^bBut Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall¹ dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.

13 It shall come to pass in that day
That ^aa great panic from the Lord will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise ^bhis hand against his neighbor’s hand;

14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
^aAnd the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.

15 ^aSuch also shall be the plague
On the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.

The Nations Worship the King

16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall ^ago up from year to year to ^bworship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep ^cthe Feast of Tabernacles.

17 ^aAnd it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.

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Zechariah 14:13

A great tumult - And panic fear, such as God said He would send upon the Canaanites before Israel Deuteronomy 7:23, or on Israel itself, if disobedient Deuteronomy 28:20; or which fell on the Philistines after Jonathan' s capture of the garrison at Michmash, when every man' s "sword was against his fellow" . There is no real unity, except in God; elsewhere, since each seeks his own, all must be impregnated with mutual suspicion, ready at any moment to be fanned into a flame; as when, at the blowing of Gideon' s trumpets, "the Lord set every man' s sword against his fellow" Judges 7:22; or when, at Jehoshaphat' s prayer, "the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another" II Chronicles 20:32.

And they shall lay hold, every one on the hand of his neighbor - Every one shall be every one' s foe. Each shall, in this tumultuous throng, grasp the other' s hand, mastering him powerfully. "And his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor," as was prophesied of Ishmael, "his hand will be against every man, and every man' s hand against him" Genesis 16:12.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Zechariah 14:13:**

Ezekiel 7:7-10
Habakkuk 3:14
Zechariah 13:1

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