Zechariah 11:1
Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22A fire has been kindled in my fury, and it will burn even to the deepest Hell, and it will devour the earth with its produce, and it will burn the foundations of the mountains.
Jeremiah 22:7And I will sanctify over you the destroying man and his weapons. And they will cut down your select cedars and throw them violently into the fire.
Ezekiel 31:3Behold, Assur is like the cedar of Lebanon, with fair branches, and full of leaves, and of high stature, and his summit has been elevated above the thick branches.
Habakkuk 2:17For the iniquity of Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of animals which will deter them from the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth and the city, and of all who dwell therein.
Zechariah 10:10And I will lead them back from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them from among the Assyrians, and I will lead them to the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and no place will be left that has not been found by them.
Matthew 24:1And Jesus departed from the temple and went away. And his disciples approached him, so as to show him the buildings of the temple.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:1
God's prophet, who, in the chapters before, was an ambassador sent to promise peace, is here a herald sent to declare war. The Jewish nation shall recover its prosperity, and shall flourish for some time and become considerable; it shall be very happy, at length, in the coming of the long-expected Messiah, in the preaching of his gospel, and in the setting up of his standard there. But, when thereby the chosen remnant among them are effectually called in and united to Christ, the body of the nation, persisting in… Read the whole commentary →