Zechariah 9:7

I will take away their abominable religious practices; ¹  then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, ²  like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

1Sa 17:34-36; 2Sa 24:16-23; 1Ch 11:4-6; 1Ch 21:15-30; 1Ch 22:1; Ps 3:7; Ps 58:6; Isa 11:12-14; Isa 19:23-25; Isa 49:22,23; Isa 60:14-16; Jer 48:47; Jer 49:6,39; Eze 16:57-61; Am 3:12; Zec 8:23; Ga 3:28

¹ tn Heb “and I will take away their blood from their mouth and their abominations from between their teeth.” These expressions refer to some type of abominable religious practices, perhaps eating meat with the blood still in it (less likely NCV “drinking blood”) or eating unclean or forbidden foods.

² tn Heb “and they will be a remnant for our God”; cf. NIV “will belong to our God”; NLT “will worship our God.”