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Zechariah 14:5

The New Testament’s use of Zechariah

8 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you./f + Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”./f*

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion5

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 Thess 3:11-13

"At the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints" closely reproduces Zechariah's "the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him," a key text for the eschatological advent accompanied by the heavenly host. Paul applies the prophecy of the Lord's theophanic arrival with his holy ones directly to the parousia of Jesus.

High confidence
1 Thess 4:13-18

'the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him' parallels 'God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep' and the Lord's coming accompanied by his people. Often cited behind the parousia retinue.

Medium confidence
2 Thess 1:6-7

'Revealed from heaven with his mighty angels' draws on Zechariah's day-of-the-LORD coming, when the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. The retinue of accompanying holy ones is a standard feature of the parousia that Paul applies to Jesus. Cf. Deuteronomy 33:2.

Medium confidence
Mark 8:34-38

'The LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him' supplies the entourage of 'holy angels/holy ones' accompanying the divine advent. Mark's coming Son of Man 'with the holy angels' draws on this theophany of God arriving with his holy retinue for judgment.

Medium confidence
Matt 25:31-46

'The LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.' This supplies the retinue of v.31, 'the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,' for the day of the LORD's appearing.

Medium confidence

Echo3

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Jude 1:14-15

The coming of the Lord accompanied by 'all the holy ones with him' parallels Zechariah's prophecy that the LORD will come and all the holy ones with him. The eschatological advent with the angelic host is a shared prophetic motif behind Jude's quotation.

Medium confidence
Matt 16:24-28

'With his angels' / 'in the glory of his Father' resonates with 'the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him,' a theophany of the divine coming with the heavenly host that informs the parousia imagery.

Medium confidence
Mark 13:24-27 ?

'The LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him' parallels the Son of Man sending out his angels at the parousia. The accompanying-holy-ones motif of the day of the LORD coheres with Mark's angelic retinue; included for recurrence of the Zecharianic day-of-the-LORD material in this pericope.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Zechariah 14
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