Zechariah 8:21

People from one city will go to the people in another city and say, ‘Let’s go together to Jerusalem to worship Yahweh and ask him to bless us; we ourselves are going.’

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

In Context

20The Commander of the armies of angels also says this: “ Some day people from many people-groups and foreign cities will come here to Jerusalem.

22And people from many people-groups and from powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to worship Yahweh and ask him to bless them.”

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Cross References

Psalms 103:22All you things that Yahweh has created, praise him; praise him in every place where he rules, everywhere! And I also will praise Yahweh!

Psalms 146:1Praise Yahweh! With my whole inner being I will praise Yahweh.

Jeremiah 31:6There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria [MTY], ‘Come, let’s go up to Jerusalem to worship Yahweh, our God!'”

Zechariah 7:2The people of Bethel city sent two men, Sharezer and Regem-Melech, along with some other men, to the temple of Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels, to request that Yahweh bless them.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 8:19-23

Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 517.) 18 And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. 20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go… Read the whole commentary →

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