Zechariah 14 · Verse 1

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah 14:1, King James Version

Zechariah 14:1 in other translations

BSBBehold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
WEBBehold, a day of the LORD comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
ASVBehold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
YLTLo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst.
DARBYBehold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
BBESee, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.
WebsterBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

What does Zechariah 14:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Zec 14:1-21. Last Struggle with the Hostile World-Powers:

Messiah-Jehovah Saves Jerusalem and Destroys the Foe, of Whom the Remnant Turns to the Lord Reigning at Jerusalem. 1. day of the Lord--in which He shall vindicate His justice by punishing the wicked and then saving His elect people (Joe 2:31; 3:14; Mal 4:1, 5). thy spoil ... divided in the midst of thee--by the foe; secure of victory, they shall not divide the spoil taken from thee in their camp outside, but "in the midst" of the city itself.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

The commencement of this chapter relates to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and to the calamities consequent on that event. From this great Jewish tragedy the prophet immediately passes to the utter extermination of the enemies of Christianity in the latter days. God will display his power in behalf of his people in a manner so astonishing and miraculous, that even they themselves, and much more their enemies, shall be struck with terror, Zac 14:4, Zac 14:5. The national prosperity of the Jews shall then be permanent and unmixed, Zac 14:6, Zac 14:7; and these people shall be made the instruments of converting many to the faith of the Messiah, Zac 14:8, Zac 14:9. The great increase and prosperity of the Christian Church, the New Jerusalem, is then described in terms accommodated to Jewish ideas; and the most signal vengeance denounced against all her enemies, Zac 14:10-19. From that happy period God's name will be honored in every thing, and his worship every where most reverently observe, Zac 14:20, Zac 14:21. Verse 1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh - This appears to be a prediction of that war in which Jerusalem was finally destroyed, and the Jews scattered all over the face of the earth; and of the effects produced by it.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Zechariah 14:1-7
The Lord Jesus often stood upon the Mount of Olives when on earth. He ascended from thence to heaven, and then desolations and distresses came upon the Jewish nation. Such is the view taken of this figuratively; but many consider it as a notice of events yet unfulfilled, and that it relates to troubles of which we cannot now form a full idea. Every believer, being related to God as his God, may triumph in the expectation of Christ's coming in power, and speak of it with pleasure. During a long season, the state of the church would be deformed by sin; there would be a mixture of truth and error, of happiness and misery. Such is the experience of God's people, a mingled state of grace and corruption. But, when the season is at the worst, and most unpromising, the Lord will turn darkness into light; deliverance comes when God's people have done looking for it.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Zechariah 14:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הִנֵּ֥הhi.Nehthere!H2009
יֽוֹם\־yom-a dayH3117
בָּ֖אba'[is] comingH935
לַֽיהוָ֑הla.Yah.wehof YahwehH3068
וְחֻלַּ֥קve.chu.Lakand it will be dividedH2505
שְׁלָלֵ֖ךְshe.la.Lekhplunder yourH7998
בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ\׃be.kir.Bekhin midst yourH7130

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Zechariah 14:1

  • Isaiah 13:9

    Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

  • Revelation 16:14

    For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

  • Isaiah 2:12

    For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

  • Isaiah 13:6

    Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Acts 2:20

    The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

  • Joel 2:31

    The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.

  • Malachi 4:5

    Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

  • Joel 3:14

    Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 The destroyers of Jerusalem destroyed.
3 The coming of Christ, and the graces of his kingdom.
12 The plague of Jerusalem's enemies.
16 The remnant shall turn to the Lord;
20 and their spoils shall be holy.

Isa 2:12; 13:6,9; Joe 2:31; 3:14; Mal 4:5; Ac 2:20; Re 16:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Zechariah 14:1

    Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

  • Zechariah 14:2

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

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Zechariah 14:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		HE aquí, el día de Jehová viene, y tus despojos serán repartidos en medio de ti.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Voici, un jour vient pour l’ Éternel, et tes dépouilles seront partagées au milieu de toi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Siehe, ein Tag kommt für Jehova, da wird deine Beute verteilt werden in deiner Mitte.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ecce venient dies Domini, et dividentur spolia tua in medio tui.