Zechariah 14:19

"If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths."

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes the importance of participating in religious observances, as those who neglect the Feast of Booths will face divine judgment, symbolized by a lack of rainfall. It underscores the connection between communal worship and divine blessing, suggesting that spiritual neglect leads to physical suffering.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

This shall be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles -For before the coming of the Saviour, good perhaps had been in part the excuse of the pagan, that they had been called by none. For no one had preached unto them. Wherefore the Saviour also, pointing out this in the Gospel parables, said, ‘the laborers’Matthew 20:7, called ‘at the eleventh hour, said, No man hath hired us.’ But when Christ cast His light upon us, ‘bound the strong man’Matthew 12:29, removed from his perverseness those subject to him, justified by faith those who came to

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