OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER NINE

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1 OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER NINE SYRIA, PHOENICIA AND PALESTINE CONQUERED V. 1-7 PHILISTINES BECOME PROSELYTES TO JUDAISM GOD S PROVIDENCE IN TROUBLESOME TIMES V. 7-8 GOD'S GOODNESS MANIFESTED THRU THE MESSIAH V GOD RENEWS HIS COVENANT WITH HIS PEOPLE AND DELIVERS THEM FROM CAPTIVITY V VICTORY OVER THEIR ENEMIES IS PROMISED V THIS PROPHECY WILL BE FULFILLED IN GOSPEL TIMES

2 READ: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD); 2 Also against Hamath, which borders on it, and against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

3 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD); 2 Also against Hamath, which borders on it, and against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. WHAT IS THE BURDEN? ORACLE? PROPHECY? READ: ZECHARIAH 9:1 NIV 1 An Oracle The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the LORD belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel;

4 WHAT IS THE BURDEN? ORACLE? PROPHECY? READ: ISAIAH 13:1 1 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. READ: ISAIAH 17:1 1 The burden against Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. READ: ISAIAH 21:13 13 The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites. READ: NAHUM 1:1 1 The burden against Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

5 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD); 2 Also against Hamath, which borders on it, and against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. WHAT CITIES WAS THIS PROPHECY AGAINST? WHERE WILL THE BURDEN OF THE LORD REST? WHEN WILL THIS COME TO PASS? WHERE ARE THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE? WHY? WHAT IS SAID OF TYRE AND SIDON?

6 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD); WHAT CITIES WAS THIS PROPHECY AGAINST? WHERE WERE THESE CITIES? HADRACH? DAMASCUS? HAMATH? - CITIES OF SYRIA? TYRE? SIDON? - CITIES OF PHOENICIA? WHERE WILL THE BURDEN OF THE LORD REST? READ: ZECHARIAH 9:1 NIV 1 An Oracle The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the LORD belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel;

7 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 WHEN WILL THIS COME TO PASS? READ: EZEKIEL 5:13 13 Thus shall My anger be spent: I will cause My fury to rest upon them; I will be avenged. They shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. READ: EZEKIEL 16:42 42 I will lay to rest My fury toward you and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet and be angry no more. READ: PSALMS 125:3 3 The scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity.

8 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD); WHERE ARE THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE? WHY? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 20:12 12 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us. Nor do we know what to do but our eyes are upon You. READ: PSALMS 123:2 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God until He has mercy on us. READ: ISAIAH 17:7 7 In that day a man will look to his Maker and his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

9 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 2 Also against Hamath, which borders on it, and against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. WHAT IS SAID OF TYRE AND SIDON? WHAT IS SAID OF TYRE? READ: EZEKIEL 28:2-8

10 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 WHAT IS SAID OF TYRE? READ: EZEKIEL 28:2-8 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your heart is lifted up and you say, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the midst of the seas. Yet you are a man and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that can be hidden from you! 4 With your wisdom and your understanding you have gained riches for yourself and gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

11 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:1-2 WHAT IS SAID OF TYRE? READ: EZEKIEL 28:2-8 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god, 7 Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you, the most terrible of the nations. They shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor. 8 They shall throw you down into the Pit and you shall die the death of the slain in the midst of the seas.

12 READ: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 3 For Tyre built herself a tower, heaped up silver like the dust, and gold like the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out. He will destroy her power in the sea and she will be devoured by fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see it and fear. Gaza shall be very sorrowful and Ekron. For He dried up her expectation. The king shall perish from Gaza and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

13 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 3 For Tyre built herself a tower, heaped up silver like the dust, and gold like the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out. He will destroy her power in the sea and she will be devoured by fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see it and fear. Gaza shall be very sorrowful and Ekron. For He dried up her expectation. The king shall perish from Gaza and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY? WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES? ASHKELON GAZA EKRON WHAT WILL THEY SEE?

14 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY? READ: EZEKIEL 26:4-5 4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD. It shall become plunder for the nations. READ: EZEKIEL 26:12 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber and your soil in the midst of the water. READ: EZEKIEL 27:27 27 Your riches, wares and merchandise, Your mariners and pilots, Your caulkers and merchandisers, All your men of war who are in you, And the entire company which is in your midst, Will fall into the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin.

15 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHO DID THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE? WHY? READ: EZEKIEL 26:7-9 7 Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots and horsemen, and an army with many people. 8 He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields. He will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you. 9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. READ: EZEKIEL 28:2 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your heart is lifted up and you say, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, In the midst of the seas, Yet you are a man and not a god, Though you set your heart as the heart of a god.

16 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHAT ABOUT ASHKELON, GAZA, EKRON AND ASHDOD? READ: JOSHUA 11: At that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. 22 None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel. They remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod. READ: JOSHUA 13:2-3 2 This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites, 3 From Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite). The five lords of the Philistines the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites.

17 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASHDOD? READ: 1 SAMUEL 5:1-2 1 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. READ: 2 CHRONICLES 26:6 6 Uzziah went out and made war against the Philistines. He broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod. He built cities around Ashdod and among the Philistines.

18 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHY DID THE LORD PUNISH THEM? READ: AMOS 1:6-8 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Gaza and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they took captive the whole captivity to deliver them up to Edom. 7 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza which shall devour its palaces. 8 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron. And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, Says the Lord GOD.

19 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ASHKELON? WHY? READ: ZEPHANIAH 2:4-7 4 Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon desolate. They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday and Ekron shall be uprooted. 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you; So there shall be no inhabitant. 6 The seacoast shall be pastures, with shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks. 7 The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They shall feed their flocks there. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will intervene for them and return their captives.

20 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:3-5 WHAT WILL ASHKELON, GAZA AND EKRON SEE? READ: ISAIAH 23: When the report reaches Egypt, they also will be in agony at the report of Tyre. 6 Cross over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland! 7 Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off to dwell? 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the honorable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 10 Overflow through your land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish. There is no more strength. 11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms. The LORD has given a commandment against Canaan To destroy its strongholds.

21 READ: ZECHARIAH 9:6-7 6 A mixed race shall settle in Ashdod and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 7 I will take away the blood from his mouth, and the abominations from between his teeth. But he who remains, even he shall be for our God, and shall be like a leader in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite.

22 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:6-7 6 A mixed race shall settle in Ashdod and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 7 I will take away the blood from his mouth, and the abominations from between his teeth. But he who remains, even he shall be for our God. He shall be like a leader in Judah and Ekron like a Jebusite. WHO SETTLED IN ASHDOD? WHAT WAS THE PRIDE OF THE PHILISTINES? WHAT WAS THE ABOMINATION OF THE PHILISTINES? WHO WILL REMAIN? WHY?

23 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:6-7 6 A mixed race shall settle in Ashdod and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. WHO SETTLED IN ASHDOD? READ: NEHEMIAH 4:7-8 7 Now it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being restored and the gaps were beginning to be closed, that they became very angry, 8 All of them conspired together to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion. READ: NEHEMIAH 13:23-24 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.

24 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:6-7 7 I will take away the blood from his mouth and the abominations from between his teeth. But he who remains, even he shall be for our God. He shall be like a leader in Judah and Ekron like a Jebusite. WHAT WAS THE ABOMINATION OF THE PHILISTINES? READ: GENESIS 9:4 4 You shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. READ: LEVITICUS 7: You shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast. 27 Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.

25 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:6-7 WHAT WAS THEIR ABOMINATION? READ: NUMBERS 25:1-3 1 Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab. 2 They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.

26 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:6-7 7 I will take away the blood from his mouth, and the abominations from between his teeth. But he who remains, even he shall be for our God. He shall be like a leader in Judah and Ekron like a Jebusite. WHO WILL REMAIN? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 56:6-8 6 The sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants - Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant - 7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar. For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet I will gather to him Others besides those who are gathered to him.

27 READ: ZECHARIAH 9:8 8 I will camp around My house because of the army, because of him who passes by and him who returns. No more shall an oppressor pass through them, for now I have seen with My eyes.

28 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:8 8 I will camp around My house because of the army, because of him who passes by and him who returns. No more shall an oppressor pass through them, for now I have seen with My eyes. WHO IS THIS ARMY? WHO IS PASSING BY AND RETURNING? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY? WHAT HAS THE LORD SEEN?

29 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:8 WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHECY? WHO IS THIS GREAT ARMY? ALEXANDER? READ: DANIEL 8:7-8 7 I saw him confronting the ram. He was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him. And there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand. 8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

30 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:8 8 I will camp around My house because of the army, because of him who passes by and him who returns. No more shall an oppressor pass through them, for now I have seen with My eyes. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 60:18 Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise. READ: EZEKIEL 28:24 24 There shall no longer be a pricking brier or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them, who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

31 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:8 8 I will camp around My house because of the army, because of him who passes by and him who returns. No more shall an oppressor pass through them, for now I have seen with My eyes. WHAT HAS THE LORD SEEN? READ: ISAIAH 37:17-20 READ: DANIEL 9:18-19

32 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:8 WHAT HAS THE LORD SEEN? READ: ISAIAH 37: Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear. Open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, 19 And have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 20 Therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone.

33 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:8 WHAT HAS THE LORD SEEN? READ: DANIEL 9: O my God, incline Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name. READ: ISAIAH 63:15 15 Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?

34 READ: ZECHARIAH 9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; he is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

35 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. WHY SHOULD THEY REJOICE? WHO IS COMING? WHO IS THIS KING? WHAT WILL HE DO?

36 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. WHO IS THIS KING? READ: PSALMS 2:6-7 6 I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. READ: PSALMS 72:8 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.

37 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:9-10 READ: MATTHEW 21: Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King is coming to you, Lowly, and sitting on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. 6 The disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them and set Him on them. 8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 The multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest! 10 When He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? 11 The multitudes said, This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.

38 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. WHAT WILL HE DO? READ: ISAIAH 2:4 READ: HOSEA 2:18

39 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:9-10 WHAT WILL HE DO? READ: ISAIAH 2:4 4 He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore. READ: HOSEA 2:18 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them; With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely.

40 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:9-10 WHAT WILL HE DO? READ: MICAH 5: It shall be in that day, says the LORD, That I will cut off your horses from your midst And destroy your chariots. 11 I will cut off the cities of your land And throw down all your strongholds. READ: EPHESIANS 2:17 17 He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

41 READ: ZECHARIAH 9: As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. 13 I have bent Judah, My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim. And I raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man.

42 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. 13 I have bent Judah; My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim. And I raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man. WHAT WAS THIS COVENANT? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHO WILL THE LORD SET FREE? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHERE IS THEIR HOPE? WHO DID THE LORD RAISE UP? WHY?

43 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:11-13 WHAT WAS THIS COVENANT? READ: LEVITICUS 26: I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac. And My covenant with Abraham I will remember. I will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left empty by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

44 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:11-13 WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? READ: DEUTERONOMY 30:4-6 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you and from there He will bring you. 5 The LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

45 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? READ: NAHUM 1:7 7 The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble. He knows those who trust in Him. READ: PSALMS 31:3-5 3 You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name's sake, Lead me and guide me. 4 Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my strength. 5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

46 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. WHERE IS THEIR HOPE? READ: JEREMIAH 31:17 17 There is hope in your future, says the LORD, That your children shall come back to their own border. READ: EZEKIEL 37: He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off! 12 Prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

47 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? READ: ISAIAH 61:7 7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

48 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: I have bent Judah, My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim. And I raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece. And I made you like the sword of a mighty man. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? READ: JOEL 3:6-7 6 The people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place to which you have sold them. And I will return your retaliation upon your own head.

49 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: I have bent Judah; My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim. And I raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man. WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? READ: HEBREWS 11: What more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

50 READ: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD will be seen over them and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet and go with whirlwinds from the south. 15 The LORD of hosts will defend them. They shall devour and subdue with sling stones. They shall drink and roar as if with wine. They shall be filled with blood like basins, like the corners of the altar.

51 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD will be seen over them and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet and go with whirlwinds from the south. 15 The LORD of hosts will defend them. They shall devour and subdue with sling stones. They shall drink and roar as if with wine. They shall be filled with blood like basins, like the corners of the altar. HOW WILL THE LORD BE SEEN? HOW WILL THE LORD DEFEND THEM? WHAT ALTAR WAS FILLED WITH BLOOD?

52 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:14-15 HOW WILL THE LORD BE SEEN? READ: PSALMS 18:14 14 He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them. READ: PSALMS 77: The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound; Your arrows also flashed about. 18 The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook. READ: PSALMS 144:6 6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them. Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

53 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD of hosts will defend them. They shall devour and subdue with sling stones. They shall drink and roar as if with wine. They shall be filled with blood like basins, like the corners of the altar. HOW WILL THE LORD DEFEND THEM? READ: ISAIAH 21:1 1 The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. READ: JEREMIAH 46:10 10 This is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, That He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. The sword shall devour. It shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice In the north country by the River Euphrates.

54 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD of hosts will defend them. They shall devour and subdue with sling stones. They shall drink and roar as if with wine. They shall be filled with blood like basins, like the corners of the altar. WHAT ALTAR WAS FILLED WITH BLOOD? READ: EXODUS 29:12 12 You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar. READ: LEVITICUS 4:18 18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of meeting. And he shall pour the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of meeting

55 READ: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD their God will save them in that day, as the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a banner over His land-- 17 How great is its goodness. How great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.

56 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD their God will save them in that day, as the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a banner over His land-- 17 How great is its goodness. How great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women. HOW WILL THE LORD SAVE THEM? WHAT WILL THEY BE TO THE LORD?

57 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD their God will save them in that day, as the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a banner over His land-- HOW WILL THE LORD SAVE THEM? READ: EZEKIEL 36: Thus says the Lord GOD: I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them; I will increase their men like a flock. 38 Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

58 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD their God will save them in that day, as the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a banner over His land-- WHAT WILL THEY BE TO THE LORD? READ: ISAIAH 62:3 3 You shall also be a crown of glory In the hand of the LORD, A royal diadem In the hand of your God. READ: MALACHI 3:17 17 They shall be Mine, says the LORD of hosts, On the day that I make them My jewels. I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

59 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: The LORD their God will save them in that day, as the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a banner over His land-- HOW WILL THEY BE LIFTED UP? READ: ISAIAH 11:10 10 In that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people. The Gentiles shall seek Him and His resting place shall be glorious. READ: ISAIAH 11:12 12 He will set up a banner for the nations. He will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

60 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: How great is its goodness. How great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women. HOW GREAT IS GOD S GOODNESS? READ: PSALMS 145:7 7 They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And They shall sing of Your righteousness. READ: ISAIAH 63:7 7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, According to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, According to the multitude of His loving-kindnesses.

61 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9:16-17 HOW GREAT IS GOD S GOODNESS? READ: JEREMIAH 31:12 12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, Streaming to the goodness of the LORD: For wheat and new wine and oil, For the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, And they shall sorrow no more at all. READ: JEREMIAH 31:14 14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance. My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD. READ: HOSEA 3:5 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days.

62 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: How great is its goodness. How great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women. HOW GREAT IS GOD S BEAUTY? READ: PSALMS 27:4 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. READ: ISAIAH 33:17 17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see the land that is very far off.

63 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 9: How great is its goodness. How great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive and new wine the young women. HOW WILL GOD MANIFEST HIMSELF TO THE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN?

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