# Zechariah 09 đź“–
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[[#🧠Chapter Summary]]
[[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]]
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## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### The Coming of the True King
[[#Verse 01.]] This is an oracle, the Lord’s message concerning the land of Hadrach, with its focus on Damascus: The eyes of all humanity, especially of the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord,Â
[[#Verse 02.]]Â as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.
[[#Verse 03.]]Â Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets.Â
[[#Verse 04.]] Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea—she will be consumed by fire.
[[#Verse 05.]] Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.Â
[[#Verse 06.]]Â A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.Â
[[#Verse 07.]] I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.Â
[[#Verse 08.]] Then I will surround my temple to protect it like a guard from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.
[[#Verse 09.]]Â Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
Look! Your king is coming to you:
He is legitimate and victorious,
humble and riding on a donkey—
on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.
[[#Verse 10.]] I will remove the chariot from Ephraim
and the warhorse from Jerusalem,
and the battle bow will be removed.
Then he will announce peace to the nations.
His dominion will be from sea to sea
and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
[[#Verse 11.]]Â Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.Â
[[#Verse 12.]]Â Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.Â
[[#Verse 13.]] I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow. I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and I will make you, Zion, like a warrior’s sword.
[[#Verse 14.]] Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Sovereign Lord will blow the trumpet and will proceed in the southern storm winds.Â
[[#Verse 15.]] The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink and will become noisy like drunkards, full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar.Â
[[#Verse 16.]] On that day the Lord their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land.Â
[[#Verse 17.]] How precious and fair! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.
## ==đź“– Verse-by-Verse Commentary==
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## 🧠Chapter Summary
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## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application
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- "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation."
- "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular."
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