Zechariah 9:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and also against Hamath,which borders it,as well as Tyre and Sidon,though they are very shrewd.”
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“and also against Hamath,which borders it,as well as Tyre and Sidon,though they are very shrewd.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And also Hamath doth border thereon, Tyre and Zidon, for--very wise!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Zechariah 9:2 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 13:21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- 1 Kings 17:9“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
- 2 Kings 23:33And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- 2 Kings 25:21There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
- Isaiah 23:1This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
- Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- Ezekiel 26:1In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 27:1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 28:1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 28:21“Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.
- Joel 3:4Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
- Amos 1:3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
- Amos 1:9This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.
- Amos 6:14For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
- Obadiah 1:20And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
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