Zechariah 12:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 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.

Zechariah 12:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 14:14
And 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.
Psalms 75:8
For 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.
Isaiah 51:22-23
Thus 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: …
Isaiah 51:17
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.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon 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.

Topics

Israel, Prophecies Concerning

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Here is, I. The title of this charter of promises made to God’s Israel; it is the burden of the word of the Lord, a divine prediction; it is of weight in the delivery of it; it is to be pressed upon people, and will be very pressing in the accomplishment of it; it is a burden, a heavy burden, to all the church’s enemies, like that talent of lead, Zech. 5:7, 8. But it is for Israel; it is for their…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. cup of trembling--a cup causing those who drink it to reel (from a Hebrew root “to reel”). Jerusalem, who drank the “cup of trembling” herself, shall be so to her foes (Is 51:17, 22; Jr 13:13). Calvin with the Septuagint translates, “threshold of destruction,” on which they shall stumble and be crushed when they attempt to cross it. English Version is better. both against Judah--The Hebrew orde…