New King James Version
Zechariah 11:1
1Open your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour 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 Living Translation (NLT)Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedar forests.
Context of Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour your cedars. 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the thick forest has come down. 3There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.
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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 also bring them back from the land of Egypt, And gather them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, Until no more room is found for them.
- Jeremiah 22:6For thus says the Lord to the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to Me, The head of Lebanon; Yet I surely will make you a wilderness, Cities which are not inhabited.
- Habakkuk 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
- Haggai 1:8Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord.
- Zechariah 14:1Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- Matthew 24:1Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple.
- Luke 19:41Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
- Luke 21:23But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon 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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