Zechariah 9:15

Translations

Modern

The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.

Traditional

The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

Literal

YHWH of Hosts will give cover over them, and they will devour, and they will conquer with stones of a sling; and they will drink and roar as if with wine, and they will be full like a bowl, like the corners of the altar!

Latin

Dominus exercituum proteget eos: et devorabunt, et subjicient lapidibus fundæ: et bibentes inebriabuntur quasi a vino, et replebuntur ut phialæ, et quasi cornua altaris.

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English

The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.

Notes

Zechariah 9:15

slingstones: In ancient battles, large stones were thrown at defenders on city walls and launched at people inside. The Maccabees' victory over the Hellenistic Seleucids in the 100s BC might have partly fulfilled Zechariah’s prophecy of Israel defeating the Greeks (see 1 Maccabees 3:16–24; 4:6–16; 7:40–50).
they will be filled … drenched: When the Lord sends his armies against the Greeks, there will be a lot of bloodshed.
like sprinkling bowls: Ceremonial sprinkling bowls filled with animal blood were used in sacrifice rituals. This image suggests that defeating the Lord’s enemies is, in some way, an offering to him (see Exodus 24:6; Leviticus 1:5; 16:18).

Zechariah 9:9–17

The second message of Zechariah’s first oracle (Zechariah 9–11) contrasts war and peace, themes that have shaped human history. Judah’s future deliverer-king will win in battle, yet remain righteous and humble (Zechariah 9:9). He will bring peace to all nations during his universal reign (Zechariah 9:10).

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Apocalyptic Literature

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Prophecies of Zechariahc. 520 BC

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Zechariah 12:6
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.
Zechariah 10:7
Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
Zechariah 12:8
On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
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Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Zechariah 10:5
They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
Exodus 27:2
Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
Leviticus 4:25
Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 4:18
He is also to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting, and he must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Revelation 19:13–21
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Micah 5:8
Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
1 Samuel 17:45
But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

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