Zechariah 9:16

And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the dock of his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

In Context

15The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

17For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?

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Cross References

Exodus 28:21And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

Isaiah 11:10In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Isaiah 54:12And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.

Isaiah 60:14And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 23:3And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.

Ezekiel 34:11For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my sheep, and will visit them.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 9:13-17

Gospel Invitations; Promises of God's Favour to Israel. ( b. c. 510.) 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. 14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the… Read the whole commentary →

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