Zechariah 14:18

And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations:

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And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

In Context

17And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain.

19This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:34Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.

Micah 5:8\5:9\Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.

Zechariah 14:15And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 14:17-21

Evangelical Predictions; Threatenings and Promises; Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 500.) 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up,… Read the whole commentary →

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