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Zechariah 12:1–2

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THE burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
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From verse 1

  1. Isaiah 42:5Rank 1 from verse 1
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    5¶ Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

  2. Jeremiah 51:15Rank 2 from verse 1
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    15He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

  3. Isaiah 57:16Rank 3 from verse 1
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    16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

  4. Hebrews 1:10–12Rank 4 from verse 1
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    10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

    11They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

    12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

  5. Hebrews 12:9Rank 5 from verse 1
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    9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  6. Isaiah 44:24Rank 6 from verse 1
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    24Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

  7. Isaiah 48:13Rank 7 from verse 1
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    13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

  8. Psalms 102:25–26Rank 8 from verse 1
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    25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

    26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

  9. Ecclesiastes 12:7Rank 9 from verse 1
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    7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  10. Genesis 2:7Rank 10 from verse 1
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    7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  11. Numbers 16:22Rank 11 from verse 1
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    22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

  12. Ezekiel 18:4Rank 12 from verse 1
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    4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

  13. Jeremiah 30:16Rank 13 from verse 1
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    16Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

  14. Jeremiah 38:16Rank 14 from verse 1
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    16So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

  15. Job 26:7Rank 15 from verse 1
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    7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

  16. Psalms 136:5–6Rank 16 from verse 1
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    5To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.

    6To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

  17. Isaiah 40:12Rank 17 from verse 1
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    12¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

  18. Isaiah 40:22Rank 18 from verse 1
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    22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

  19. Isaiah 45:12Rank 19 from verse 1
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    12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

  20. Isaiah 45:18Rank 20 from verse 1
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    18For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

  21. Isaiah 51:13Rank 21 from verse 1
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    13And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

  22. Isaiah 51:22–23Rank 22 from verse 1
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    22Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

    23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

  23. Jeremiah 10:12Rank 23 from verse 1
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    12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

  24. Psalms 104:2Rank 24 from verse 1
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    2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

  25. Ezekiel 36:5–7Rank 25 from verse 1
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    5Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

    6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

    7Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

  26. Jeremiah 30:10Rank 26 from verse 1
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    10¶ Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

  27. Jeremiah 50:34Rank 27 from verse 1
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    34Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

  28. Joel 3:19Rank 28 from verse 1
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    19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  29. Joel 3:21Rank 29 from verse 1
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    21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.

  30. Lamentations 2:14Rank 30 from verse 1
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    14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

  31. Malachi 1:1Rank 31 from verse 1
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    1THE burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

  32. Obadiah 1:16–17Rank 32 from verse 1
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    16For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

    17¶ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

  33. Zechariah 9:1Rank 33 from verse 1
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    1THE 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.

From verse 2

  1. Psalms 75:8Rank 1 from verse 2
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    8For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

  2. Zechariah 14:14Rank 2 from verse 2
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    14And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

  3. Isaiah 51:22–23Rank 3 from verse 2
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    22Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

    23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

  4. Isaiah 51:17Rank 4 from verse 2
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    17¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

  5. Habakkuk 2:16Rank 5 from verse 2
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    16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

  6. Jeremiah 25:15Rank 6 from verse 2
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    15¶ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

  7. Jeremiah 25:17Rank 7 from verse 2
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    17Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:

  8. Jeremiah 49:12Rank 8 from verse 2
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    12For thus saith the Lord; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

  9. Jeremiah 51:57Rank 9 from verse 2
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    57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

  10. Jeremiah 51:7Rank 10 from verse 2
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    7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

  11. Jeremiah 8:14Rank 11 from verse 2
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    14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

  12. Revelation 14:10Rank 12 from verse 2
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    10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

  13. Revelation 16:19Rank 13 from verse 2
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    19And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

  14. Revelation 18:6Rank 14 from verse 2
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    6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Zechariah 12:1

COMBINED MEANING

burden

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Sense 1: A load carried; a weight, hardship, duty, or responsibility; also a solemn message laid upon a speaker. Sense 2: To weigh down or oppress.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

layeth

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Third-person singular present form of lay. Sense 1: To put, place, set, arrange, deposit, apply, establish, impose, or cause to be in a stated position or condition. Sense 2: In lay with, to have sexual relations. Sense 3: To press or bear upon. Sense 4: In lay up, lay by, or lay in store, to keep, store, or treasure; in lay wait, lay snares, lay an ambush, or lay siege, to prepare or set. Sense 5: In lay hold or lay hands on, to seize, take, apprehend, or touch. Sense 6: In lay down one's life, to surrender or give it; in lay aside, lay apart, or lay away, to remove, reject, or put off.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

foundation

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The base or supporting part on which a structure rests; the beginning, establishment, underlying ground, or governing basis of a work, world, teaching, hope, or spiritual building.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

spirit

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Sense 1: An immaterial living or personal being distinct from a body. Sense 2: The inward life, disposition, mind, or courage of a person. Sense 3: The Holy Spirit, the divine Spirit of God.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Zechariah 12:2

COMBINED MEANING

behold

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1. Used as an attention word or command directing someone to look at or take notice of the person, thing, statement, or event presented: look; see; take notice. 2. As a verb, to look upon, see, observe, or witness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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about

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1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

siege

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The surrounding and investing of a city or fortified place by an army to attack it, cut it off, and compel its surrender.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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12:1THE burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

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12:2Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

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