Chapter fourteen closes Zechariah’s prophecy with detail about the “day of the LORD,” specifically the part of that period when Messiah comes back. At one point the nations will surround Jerusalem to devastate it (Zechariah 14:1-2). Just before the worst, Messiah will appear and do “battle and fight against those nations” (Zechariah 14:3). The line …
Chapter fourteen continues God’s message against Babylon, addressing the king of Babylon specifically. In Isaiah 14:1-4, God made the promise of Israel’s restoration again, declaring that they would return to the land of Israel from all the foreign nations, making their once captors captives. This is why he could guarantee Babylon’s downfall. The particular taunt …
Chapter fifteen begins with a similar statement to Ezekiel 14:14-20. A decade earlier God told Ezekiel that the combined righteousness of Noah, Daniel, and Job could not save a nation God had decided to destroy. Here he told Jeremiah that the combined prayers of Moses and Samuel could not save Judah either (Jeremiah 15:1-4). Specifically …
