Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars! 1
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Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled by my anger 1 and is burning to the lowest Sheol; 1 it is devouring the earth and its harvest; 1 it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains. 1
Jeremiah 22:7For I have designated destroyers to come against you! Men with their weapons 1 will cut off the best of your cedars and let them fall into the fire.
Ezekiel 31:3Behold! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, giving shade to the forest, 1 and the tallest in height, and the branches formed its treetop. 1
Habakkuk 2:17The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you and the destruction of animals will terrify you. 2 For you have shed human blood and you have acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them. 1
Zechariah 10:10For I will restore them from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the land of Gilead and Lebanon until there is no more room for them.
Matthew 24:1Jesus went out from the temple and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to point out to 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 →