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Zechariah 12:14

all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • KJV King James Version

    All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

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Cross-references (1)

Passages linked to Zechariah 12:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Proverbs 9:12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

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Explain this verse (7 sources)

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He says in the last place, that this lamentation…

He says in the last place, that this lamentation would be common to all the remaining families. Though few had returned, except those from the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, and from the tribe of Levi, yet Zechariah, as I think, means here by the remaining families, the elect who had been miraculously delivered from the common ruin; for blindness had so prevailed, that the rejection of the whole people on the part of God was evident. Under this designation then I consider the remnants of grace, as Paul says, to be included; as though the Prophet had said, that he had spoken of sorrow, not with regard to the whole nation indiscriminately, but to that part which was a remnant according to the gratuitous election of God. Now follows —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To wit, which were elected by grace, and preserved…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Zec 12:14 All the families that remain, every family…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It would be somewhat tedious to repeat every family…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain All the families that remain,.... That will be in…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain All . . . that remain--after the fiery ordeal,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The families that remain. All the families that have…

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