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Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected--gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
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Judah will also fight at Jerusalem
The phrase "Judah will also fight at Jerusalem" signifies the active participation of the tribe of Judah in the defense and deliverance of Jerusalem. Historically, Judah was the leading tribe of Israel, often associated with leadership and strength. The Hebrew root for "fight" (לחם, lacham) implies engaging in battle or warfare, suggesting a physical and spiritual struggle. This reflects the prophetic vision of a united Israel, where the people of God come together to defend the holy city. Theologically, it underscores the importance of unity among God's people in the face of adversity, symbolizing the spiritual battles Christians face today.

And the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—
This phrase indicates a divine reversal of fortunes. The "wealth" (חֵיל, cheil) refers to the material riches and resources of the nations. Historically, Jerusalem had been plundered by surrounding nations, but this prophecy foretells a time when the wealth of these nations will be gathered by God's people. This collection of wealth symbolizes God's ultimate justice and the restoration of His people. It serves as a reminder of God's sovereignty and His ability to provide for His people, even using the resources of those who oppose them.

gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance
The mention of "gold, silver, and apparel" highlights the tangible blessings and prosperity that will be bestowed upon God's people. Gold and silver have always been symbols of wealth and value, while apparel represents status and dignity. The phrase "in great abundance" emphasizes the overwhelming generosity and provision of God. In a spiritual sense, this abundance can be seen as the richness of God's grace and the spiritual blessings that believers receive through faith. It points to the ultimate victory and reward for those who remain faithful to God, encouraging believers to trust in His provision and timing.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Judah
The southern kingdom of Israel, representing the Jewish people who are prophesied to fight in Jerusalem.

2. Jerusalem
The central city of Jewish worship and prophecy, often seen as a focal point in eschatological events.

3. Surrounding Nations
Refers to the Gentile nations around Israel, often seen as adversaries in prophetic literature.

4. Wealth Collection
The gathering of resources from the nations, symbolizing victory and divine provision.

5. Gold, Silver, and Apparel
Represents the material wealth and spoils of war, indicating abundance and prosperity.
Teaching Points
Divine Victory
God's people are assured of victory through divine intervention. This encourages believers to trust in God's ultimate plan and sovereignty.

Role of God's People
Judah's involvement in the battle signifies the active role believers play in God's redemptive history. Christians are called to be active participants in spiritual warfare through prayer and righteous living.

Material Wealth and Spiritual Riches
The collection of wealth symbolizes not just material prosperity but also the spiritual riches found in Christ. Believers are reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.

Eschatological Hope
The prophecy points to a future hope where God's justice prevails. Christians are encouraged to live with an eternal perspective, focusing on the promises of God.

Unity and Community
The collective action of Judah highlights the importance of unity among God's people. The church is called to stand together in faith and purpose.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the prophecy of Judah fighting in Jerusalem encourage you in your personal spiritual battles?

2. In what ways can the church today actively participate in God's redemptive plan, as Judah did in Zechariah 14:14?

3. How can the promise of divine victory in Zechariah 14:14 influence your perspective on current global events?

4. What are some practical ways to prioritize spiritual riches over material wealth in your daily life?

5. How can the themes of unity and community in this passage be applied to strengthen your local church or faith community?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Ezekiel 38-39
These chapters describe a future battle involving Israel and surrounding nations, similar to the conflict described in Zechariah 14.

Revelation 19
The imagery of a final battle and the victory of God's people aligns with the eschatological themes in Zechariah.

Isaiah 60
This chapter speaks of the wealth of nations coming to Jerusalem, echoing the themes of abundance and divine favor.

Joel 3
Describes the gathering of nations for judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, paralleling the gathering of wealth in Zechariah 14:14.
Sermons
The Elements by Which the Divine Government Punishes SinHomilistZechariah 14:12-14
The Punishment of God's EnemiesT. V. Moore, D. D.Zechariah 14:12-14
The Elements by Which the Divine Government Punishes SinD. Thomas Zechariah 14:12-15
People
Azel, Benjamin, Uzziah, Zechariah
Places
Azal, Corner Gate, Egypt, Gate of Benjamin, Geba, Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, Rimmon, Tower of Hananel
Topics
Abundance, Apparel, Clothing, Collected, Fight, Fighting, Force, Fought, Garments, Gathered, Gold, Heathen, Jerusalem, Judah, Massed, Nations, Quantities, Round, Silver, Store, Surrounding, Wealth
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Zechariah 14:14

     4333   gold
     4363   silver

Zechariah 14:12-15

     4843   plague

Library
Light at Evening Time
This, then, shall be the subject of my present discourse. There are different evening times that happen to the church and to God's people, and as a rule we may rest quite certain that at evening time there shall be light. God very frequently acts in grace in such a manner that we can find a parallel in nature. For instance, God says, "As the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, even so shall my word be, it shall not return unto me void, it shall accomplish that which …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857

Light at Evening Time
AS WE read the Scriptures, we are continually startled by fresh discoveries of the magnificence of God. Our attention is fixed upon a passage, and presently sparklets of fire and glory dart forth. It strikes us; we are struck by it. Hence these bright coruscations. Our admiration is excited. We could not have thought that so much light could possibly lie concealed within a few words. Our text thus reveals to us in a remarkable manner the penetration, the discernment, the clear-sightedness of God. …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 62: 1916

A Peal of Bells
The text, as you perceive, deals with horses which were unclean under the Jewish law yet, in the day spoken of in the text, the horses themselves shall be purged from commonness or uncleanness, and their harness shall be dedicated to God as certainly as the vestments of the High Priest himself. It will be a happy day indeed when the men who deal with horses, too often a race anything but honest and upbeat shall exhibit in their common transactions a consecration to God, so that on the horses' furniture …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861

24TH DAY. Eventide Light.
"He is Faithful that Promised." "At evening-time it shall be light."--ZECH. xiv. 7. Eventide Light. How inspiring the thought of coming glory! How would we rise above our sins, and sorrows, and sufferings, if we could live under the power of "a world to come!" Were faith to take at all times its giant leap beyond a soul-trammelling earth, and remember its brighter destiny. If it could stand on its Pisgah Mount, and look above and beyond the mists and vapours of this land of shadows, and rest on …
John Ross Macduff—The Faithful Promiser

That all Troubles are to be Endured for the Sake of Eternal Life
"My Son, let not the labours which thou hast undertaken for Me break thee down, nor let tribulations cast thee down in any wise, but let my promise strengthen and comfort thee in every event. I am sufficient to reward thee above all measure and extent. Not long shalt thou labour here, nor always be weighed down with sorrows. Wait yet a little while, and thou shalt see a speedy end of thine evils. An hour shall come when all labour and confusion shall cease. Little and short is all that passeth …
Thomas A Kempis—Imitation of Christ

Sanctified Commonplaces
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts.' (Zechariah xiv. 20, 21.) What I have to say may not strike some of you as setting forth any very high or exalted truth, but I am satisfied as to its being a very important matter. I want to talk to you about the sanctification of the commonplace things in life. …
T. H. Howard—Standards of Life and Service

The Girdle of the City. Nehemiah 3
The beginning of the circumference was from 'the sheep-gate.' That, we suppose, was seated on the south part, yet but little removed from that corner, which looks south-east. Within was the pool of Bethesda, famous for healings. Going forward, on the south part, was the tower Meah: and beyond that, "the tower of Hananeel": in the Chaldee paraphrast it is, 'The tower Piccus,' Zechariah 14:10; Piccus, Jeremiah 31:38.--I should suspect that to be, the Hippic tower, were not that placed on the north …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

The Evening Light
This chapter is an article written by the author many years after she had received light on the unity of the church. It will acquaint the reader with what is meant by the expression "evening light." "At evening time it shall be light." "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light" (Zechariah 14:6,7). The expression …
Mary Cole—Trials and Triumphs of Faith

Three Inscriptions with one Meaning
'Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it ... HOLINESS TO THE LORD.'--EXODUS xxviii. 36. 'In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.'--ZECH. xiv. 20. 'His name shall be in their foreheads.'--REV. xxii. 4. You will have perceived my purpose in putting these three widely separated texts together. They all speak of inscriptions, and they are all obviously connected with each other. The first of them comes from the ancient times of the institution …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The River of Egypt, Rhinocorura. The Lake of Sirbon.
Pliny writes, "From Pelusium are the intrenchments of Chabrias: mount Casius: the temple of Jupiter Casius: the tomb of Pompey the Great: Ostracine: Arabia is bounded sixty-five miles from Pelusium: soon after begins Idumea and Palestine from the rising up of the Sirbon lake." Either my eyes deceive me, while I read these things,--or mount Casius lies nearer Pelusium, than the lake of Sirbon. The maps have ill placed the Sirbon between mount Casius and Pelusium. Sirbon implies burning; the name of …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

The Prophet Amos.
GENERAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS. It will not be necessary to extend our preliminary remarks on the prophet Amos, since on the main point--viz., the circumstances under which he appeared as a prophet--the introduction to the prophecies of Hosea may be regarded as having been written for those of Amos also. For, according to the inscription, they belong to the same period at which Hosea's prophetic ministry began, viz., the latter part of the reign of Jeroboam II., and after Uzziah had ascended the …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles.
(October, a.d. 29.) ^D John VII. 11-52. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Evening of the Third Day in Passion-Week - on the Mount of Olives: Discoures to the Disciples Concerning the Last Things.
THE last and most solemn denunciation of Jerusalem had been uttered, the last and most terrible prediction of judgment upon the Temple spoken, and Jesus was suiting the action to the word. It was as if He had cast the dust of His Shoes against the House' that was to be left desolate.' And so He quitted for ever the Temple and them that held office in it. They had left the Sanctuary and the City, had crossed black Kidron, and were slowly climbing the Mount of Olives. A sudden turn in the road, and …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

A vision of the King.
ONE of the most blessed occupations for the believer is the prayerful searching of God's holy Word to discover there new glories and fresh beauties of Him, who is altogether lovely. Shall we ever find out all which the written Word reveals of Himself and His worthiness? This wonderful theme can never be exhausted. The heart which is devoted to Him and longs through the presence and indwelling of the Holy Spirit to be closer to the Lord, to hear and know more of Himself, will always find something …
Arno Gaebelein—The Lord of Glory

The Promise to the Patriarchs.
A great epoch is, in Genesis, ushered in with the history of the time of the Patriarchs. Luther says: "This is the third period in which Holy Scripture begins the history of the Church with a new family." In a befitting manner, the representation is opened in Gen. xii. 1-3 by an account of the first revelation of God, given to Abraham at Haran, in which the way is opened up for all that follows, and in which the dispensations of God are brought before us in a rapid survey. Abraham is to forsake …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

The Prophet Joel.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS. The position which has been assigned to Joel in the collection of the Minor Prophets, furnishes an external argument for the determination of the time at which Joel wrote. There cannot be any doubt that the Collectors were guided by a consideration of the chronology. The circumstance, that they placed the prophecies of Joel just between the two prophets who, according to the inscriptions and contents of their prophecies, belonged to the time of Jeroboam and Uzziah, is …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Zechariah
CHAPTERS I-VIII Two months after Haggai had delivered his first address to the people in 520 B.C., and a little over a month after the building of the temple had begun (Hag. i. 15), Zechariah appeared with another message of encouragement. How much it was needed we see from the popular despondency reflected in Hag. ii. 3, Jerusalem is still disconsolate (Zech. i. 17), there has been fasting and mourning, vii. 5, the city is without walls, ii. 5, the population scanty, ii. 4, and most of the people …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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