Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire can burn up your cedars!
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Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Deuteronomy 32:22My anger has been set on fire, burning down to the depths of the grave, destroying the earth and all it produces, even setting fire to the foundations of the mountains.
Jeremiah 22:7I will choose men to come and destroy you, each with his own ax. They will chop down your fine cedars and throw them in the fire.
Ezekiel 31:3Look at Assyria. It was like a cedar in Lebanon, with its beautiful branches providing shade in the forest. It was so high that its top reached the clouds.
Habakkuk 2:17As you destroyed the forests of Lebanon you will also be destroyed; you hunted the animals there, and now they will hunt you. For you shed human blood and you destroyed lands and cities, along with those who lived there.
Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from the land of Egypt; I will gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there won't be enough room for them!
Matthew 24:1As Jesus was leaving the Temple his disciples came to him, pointing proudly to the Temple buildings.
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 →