The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,941
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,941
Zechariah 8:9 (NIV)

9 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Now hear these words, “Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.”
This is also what the prophets said who were present when the foundation was laid for the house of the Lord Almighty.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,942
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,942
Zechariah 8:10 (NIV)

10 Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because
of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbour.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,943
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,943
Zechariah 8:11 (NIV)

11 But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past,’ declares the Lord Almighty.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,944
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,944
Zechariah 8:12 (NIV)

12 ‘The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew.
I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,945
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,945
Zechariah 8:13 (NIV)

Just as you, Judah and Israel, have been a curse among the nations, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.
Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.’
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,946
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,946
Zechariah 8:14 (NIV)

14 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me,’ says the Lord Almighty,
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,947
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,947
Zechariah 8:15 (NIV)

15 ‘so now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,948
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,948
Zechariah 8:16 (NIV)

16 These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts;
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,949
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,949
Zechariah 8:17 (NIV)

17 do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,’ declares the Lord.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,951
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,951
Zechariah 8:19 (NIV)

19 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad
occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.’
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,952
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,952
Zechariah 8:20 (NIV)

20 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,953
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,953
Zechariah 8:21 (NIV)

21 and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, “Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty.
I myself am going.”
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,954
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,954
Zechariah 8:22 (NIV)

22 And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.’
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,955
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,955
Zechariah 8:23 (NIV)

23 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew
by the hem of his robe and say, “Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.”’
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,956
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,956
Zechariah 9:1 (NIV)

A prophecy:

The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrak
and will come to rest on Damascus –
for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel
are on the Lord –
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,957
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,957
Zechariah 9:2 (NIV)

and on Hamath too, which borders on it,
and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skilful.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,958
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,958
Zechariah 9:3 (NIV)

Tyre has built herself a stronghold;
she has heaped up silver like dust,
and gold like the dirt of the streets.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,959
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,959
Zechariah 9:4 (NIV)

4 But the Lord will take away her possessions
and destroy her power on the sea,
and she will be consumed by fire.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,960
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,960
Zechariah 9:5 (NIV)

5 Ashkelon will see it and fear;
Gaza will writhe in agony,
and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
Gaza will lose her king
and Ashkelon will be deserted.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.