Discovery Box| (1.00) | Zec 11:13 |
| The Lord then said to me, “Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum 1 at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter 2 at the temple 3 of the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Zec 11:15 |
| Again the Lord said to me, “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 11:17 |
| Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!” |
| (1.00) | Zec 12:1 |
| The revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: The Lord – he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person 1 – says, |
| (1.00) | Zec 12:3 |
| Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden 1 for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured; 2 yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it. |
| (1.00) | Zec 13:2 |
| And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove 1 the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. |
| (1.00) | Zec 13:3 |
| Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, ‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the Lord.’ Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 13:5 |
| Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’ 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:6 |
| On that day there will be no light – the sources of light in the heavens will congeal. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:9 |
| The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:16 |
| Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:17 |
| But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem 1 to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain. |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:18 |
| If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:20 |
| On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple 1 will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. 2 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:21 |
| Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite 1 in the house of the Lord who rules over all. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:1 |
| What follows is divine revelation. 1 The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi: 2 |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:6 |
| “A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects 1 his master. If I am your 2 father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’ |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:7 |
| You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask, ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table 1 of the Lord as if it is of no importance! |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:8 |
| For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, 1 is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them 2 to your governor! Will he be pleased with you 3 or show you favor?” asks the Lord who rules over all. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:10 |
| “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, 1 so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will no longer accept an offering from you. |
