New English Translation
Zechariah 11:1
1Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.
Zechariah 11:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
- New International Version (NIV)Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Open your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour your cedars.
Context of Zechariah 11:1
Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. 2Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen. 3Listen to the howling of shepherds, because their magnificence has been destroyed. Listen to the roaring of young lions, because the thickets of the Jordan have been devastated.
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פְּתַ֥ח לְבָנ֖וֹן דְּלָתֶ֑יךָ וְתֹאכַ֥ל אֵ֖שׁ בַּאֲרָזֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Zechariah 11:1
- Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, for there will not be enough room for them in their own land.
- Jeremiah 22:6“‘For the Lord says concerning the palace of the king of Judah, “This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted.
- Habakkuk 2:8Because you robbed many countries, all who are left among the nations will rob you. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.
- Haggai 1:8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the Lord.
- Zechariah 14:1A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
- Matthew 24:1Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.
- Luke 19:41Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
- Luke 21:23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.
Commentaries on Zechariah 11:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Open thy doors, O Lebanon - I will give Mr. Joseph Mede's note upon this verse: - "That which moveth me more than the rest, is in chap. 11, which contains a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, and a description of the wickedness of the inhabitants, for which God would give them to the sword, and have no more pity upon them. It is expounded of the destruction by Titus; but methinks such a prophecy was nothing seasonable for Zachary's time, (when the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Open thy doors, O Lebanon - Lebanon, whose cedars had stood, its glory, for centuries, yet could offer no resistance to him who felled them and were carried off to adorn the palaces of its conquerors (see above at Zephaniah 2:14, and note 2. p. 276), was in Isaiah Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 37:24 and Jeremiah Jeremiah 22:6-7 the emblem of the glory of the Jewish state; and in Ezekiel, of Jerusalem, as the prophet himself explains it Ezekiel 17:3, Ezekiel 17:12…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Destruction to come upon the Jews. (1-3) The Lord's dealing with the Jews. (4-14) The emblem and curse of a foolish shepherd. (15-17) Verses 1-3 In figurative expressions, that destruction of Jerusalem, and of the Jewish church and nation, is foretold, which our Lord Jesus, when the time was at hand, prophesied plainly and expressly. How can the fir trees stand, if the cedars fall? The falls of the wise and good into sin, and the falls of the rich and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Lebanon, with its snow-covered mountains and fertile valleys, was a symbol of strength and fertility.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-171. Open thy doors, O Lebanon--that is, the temple so called, as being constructed of cedars of Lebanon, or as being lofty and conspicuous like that mountain (compare Eze 17:3; Ha 2:17). Forty years before the destruction of the temple, the tract called "Massecheth Joma" states, its doors of their own accord opened, and Rabbi Johanan in alarm said, I know that thy desolation is impending according to Zechariah's prophecy. Calvin supposes Lebanon to refer…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Zechariah 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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