Zechariah 10:1

Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, the LORD who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

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In The King James Version

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

In Context

2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

1 Kings 18:41Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

Psalms 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

Psalms 104:13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

Proverbs 16:15In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 10:1

The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter—to encourage the Jews that had returned with hopes that though they had been under divine rebukes for their negligence in rebuilding the temple, and were now surrounded with enemies and dangers, yet God would do them good, and make them prosperous at home and victorious abroad. Now, I. They are here directed to eye the great God in all events that concerned them, and, both in the evils they suffered and in the comforts they desired, to… Read the whole commentary →

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