Zechariah 9:7

For I will remove their blood from their mouths and their abominations from between their teeth. Then they will become a remnant for our God like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will become like the Jebusites.

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In The King James Version

And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

In Context

6Strangers will make their homes in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

8I will camp around my land against enemy armies, + 9:8 Most interpreters translate the Hebrew words as against enemy armies and some translate the Hebrew as a guard, and so translate the phrase, I will surround my temple as a guard . so no one can pass through or return, for no oppressor will overrun them, for now I see with my own eyes! 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:34But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,

2 Samuel 24:18Then Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar for Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

1 Chronicles 11:4David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus). Now the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

Psalms 3:7Rise up, Yahweh! Save me, my God! 1 For you will hit all my enemies on the jaw; 1 you will break the teeth of the wicked. 1

Isaiah 11:12He will set up a banner for the nations and will gather the outcasts of Israel 1 and the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 1

Isaiah 49:22This is what the Lord Yahweh says, 1 “Look, I will raise my hand to the nations; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples. 1 They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. 1

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 9:2-9

Prophecy against Syria; Prophecy against the Enemies of Israel; Judgments and Mercies. ( b. c. 510.) 1 The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord . 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. 3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the Lord will cast her… Read the whole commentary →

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