Zechariah 13:8

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Summary

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

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Bible References

Two

But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.

As he approached the city and saw it, he wept over it,

He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!"

But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then you must understand that her devastation is at hand.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children,

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

The first blew his trumpet, and there was a storm of hail and fire mixed with blood, and it fell upon the earth, and one third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The great city broke into three pieces, the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of his fierce anger.

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If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

I ask then, has God repudiated his people? By no means. Why, I am an Israelite myself, I am descended from Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin.