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Zechariah 14:18

Zechariah 14:18 is verse 18 of Zechariah chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

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King James Version

And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

World English Bible

If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.

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Zechariah 14:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

17 And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.

18 And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

20 On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.

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Hebrew words

וְאִםand ifמִשְׁפַּ֨חַת[the] clan ofמִצְרַ֧יִםEgyptלֹֽאnotתַעֲלֶ֛הit will go upוְלֹ֥אand notבָאָ֖ה[is] goingוְלֹ֣אand notעֲלֵיהֶ֑םon themתִּֽהְיֶ֣הit will beהַמַּגֵּפָ֗הthe plagueאֲשֶׁ֨רwhichיִגֹּ֤ףhe will strikeיְהוָה֙Yahwehאֶת<obj.>הַגּוֹיִ֔םthe nationsאֲשֶׁר֙whichלֹ֣אnotיַֽעֲל֔וּthey will go upלָחֹ֖גto celebrate a festivalאֶת<obj.>חַ֥ג[the] festival ofהַסֻּכּֽוֹת<the> Tabernacles

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 11:11

But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

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