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Zechariah 8

Zech. 8:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
; Behold, Iu will save
yasha` (Hebrew #3467)
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
KJV usage: X at all, avenging, defend, deliver(-er), help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring (having) salvation, save(-iour), get victory.
Pronounce: yaw-shah'
Origin: a primitive root
my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
from the east
mizrach (Hebrew #4217)
sunrise, i.e. the east
KJV usage: east (side, -ward), (sun-)rising (of the sun).
Pronounce: miz-rawkh'
Origin: from 2224
country
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and from the κwest
shemesh (Hebrew #8121)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement
KJV usage: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also 1053.
Pronounce: sheh'-mesh
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
mabow' (Hebrew #3996)
an entrance (the place or the act); specifically (with or without 8121) sunset or the west; also (adverb with preposition) towards
KJV usage: by which came, as cometh, in coming, as men enter into, entering, entrance into, entry, where goeth, going down, + westward. Compare 4126.
Pronounce: maw-bo'
Origin: from 935
country
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Isa. 11:11‑12• 11And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
 12And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. (Isa. 11:11‑12)
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Isa. 43:5‑6• 5Fear not, for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
 6I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth (Isa. 43:5‑6)
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country of the going down of the sun,
Mal. 1:11• 11From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 1:11)
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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 107:2‑3• 2Let the redeemed of Jehovah say [so],{HR}Whom he redeemed from the oppressor's hand;
 3And he gathered them from the lands,{HR}From east and from west, from north and from south (sea). (Psa. 107:2‑3)
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Isa. 11:11‑16• 11And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
 12And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
 13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
 14And they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the sea; together they shall spoil the sons of the east; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
 15And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it into seven streams, and cause [men] to march over dryshod.
 16And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which will remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. (Isa. 11:11‑16)
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Isa. 27:12‑13• 12And it shall come to pass in that day [that] Jehovah shall beat off from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O children of Israel.
 13And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. (Isa. 27:12‑13)
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Isa. 43:5‑6• 5Fear not, for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
 6I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth (Isa. 43:5‑6)
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Isa. 49:12• 12Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and those from the land of Sinim. (Isa. 49:12)
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Isa. 59:19• 19And they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the adversary shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah shall lift up a standard against him. (Isa. 59:19)
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Isa. 66:19‑20• 19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
 20And they shall bring all your brethren [for] an offering unto Jehovah out of all the nations upon horses and in chariots, and in covered wagons, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain, to Jerusalem, saith Jehovah, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah. (Isa. 66:19‑20)
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Jer. 31:8• 8Behold I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. (Jer. 31:8)
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Ezek. 37:19‑25• 19Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
 20And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
 21And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
 22and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore at all:
 23neither shall they defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
 24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children, forever; and my servant David shall be their prince forever. (Ezek. 37:19‑25)
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Hos. 11:10‑11• 10They shall walk after Jehovah: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
 11They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith Jehovah. (Hos. 11:10‑11)
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Amos 9:14‑15• 14And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
 15And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith Jehovah thy God. (Amos 9:14‑15)
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Mal. 1:11• 11From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 1:11)
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Rom. 11:25‑27• 25For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, that ye be not wise in your own eyes, that hardness hath happened in part to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in;
 26and so all Israel shall be saved, even as it is written, “There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodlinesses from Jacob.
 27And this [is] for them the covenant on my part, when I shall have taken away their sins.” (Rom. 11:25‑27)
west country.
Heb. country of the going down of the sun.
Psa. 50:1• 1A psalm of Asaph.{HR}God (El), Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken{HR}And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto its setting. (Psa. 50:1)
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Psa. 113:3• 3From sun-rising unto its setting{HR}Praised be Jehovah's name. (Psa. 113:3)
• The details are not found here, but we know from other scriptures that the gathering of the Jews from other lands will be after the appearing of the Son of man (see, for example, Matt. 24:29-31), and after therefore He shall have taken to Himself His rightful power and throne. (“Zechariah 8” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west countrye;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit., as often, "from the land of the sun-rising and from the land of the sun-setting."

W. Kelly Translation

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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;