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Zech. 9:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As for thee also, ρby the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisonersn out of the pit wherein is no water.

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or, whose covenant is by blood,

Ex. 24:8• ⁸And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. (Ex. 24:8)

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Heb. 13:20• ²⁰But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant, (Heb. 13:20)

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Isa. 61:1• ¹The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound; (Isa. 61:1)

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Deut. 5:31• ³¹But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. (Deut. 5:31)

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2 Sam. 13:13• ¹³And I, whither shall I carry my reproach? and thou wouldest be as one of the infamous in Israel. And now, I pray thee, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from thee. (2 Sam. 13:13)

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2 Chron. 7:17• ¹⁷And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances; (2 Chron. 7:17)

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Dan. 2:29• ²⁹--as for thee, O king, thy thoughts arose upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass. (Dan. 2:29)

by the blood of thy covenant.

or, whose covenant is by blood.

Ex. 24:8• ⁸And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. (Ex. 24:8)

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Matt. 26:28• ²⁸For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins. (Matt. 26:28)

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Mark 14:24• ²⁴And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many. (Mark 14:24)

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Luke 22:20• ²⁰In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. (Luke 22:20)

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1 Cor. 11:25• ²⁵In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me. (1 Cor. 11:25)

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Heb. 9:10‑26• ¹⁰consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right.
¹¹But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand,
¹²nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found an eternal redemption.
¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
¹⁴how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?
¹⁵And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
¹⁶(For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.
¹⁷For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)
¹⁸Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.
¹⁹For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
²⁰saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.
²¹And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;
²²and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.
²³It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
²⁴For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
²⁵nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;
²⁶since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice. (Heb. 9:10‑26)

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Heb. 10:29• ²⁹of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb. 10:29)

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Heb. 13:20• ²⁰But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant, (Heb. 13:20)

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Psa. 69:33• ³³For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners. (Psa. 69:33)

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Psa. 102:19‑21• ¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,
²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to die;
²¹That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem, (Psa. 102:19‑21)

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Psa. 107:10‑16• ¹⁰Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,
¹¹Because they had rebelled against the words of *God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; …
¹²And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:
¹³Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses;
¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
¹⁵Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
¹⁶For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron. (Psa. 107:10‑16)

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Isa. 42:7,22• ⁷to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.
²²But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are become a prey, and none delivereth,--a spoil, and none saith, Restore. (Isa. 42:7,22)

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Isa. 49:9• ⁹saying to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare hills. (Isa. 49:9)

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Isa. 51:14• ¹⁴He that is bowed down shall speedily be loosed, and he shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail. (Isa. 51:14)

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Isa. 58:12• ¹²And they that come of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations that have remained from generation to generation; and thou shalt be called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths. (Isa. 58:12)

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Isa. 61:1• ¹The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound; (Isa. 61:1)

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Luke 4:18• ¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered, (Luke 4:18)

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Acts 26:17‑18• ¹⁷taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to whom *I* send thee,
¹⁸to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. (Acts 26:17‑18)

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Col. 1:13‑14• ¹³who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; (Col. 1:13‑14)

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Psa. 30:3• ³Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit. (Psa. 30:3)

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Psa. 40:2• ²And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings: (Psa. 40:2)

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Jer. 38:6• ⁶Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. (Jer. 38:6)

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Luke 16:24• ²⁴And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame. (Luke 16:24)

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Rev. 20:3• ³and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be loosed for a little time. (Rev. 20:3)

• “Thy prisoners” will refer to the “sons of Zion” who may at this time be found in captivity, their captivity being set forth by the figure of a pit wherein is no water. Such was their condition — shut in on every side, and deprived of all sources of life; and yet they will be “sent forth,” delivered. And the ground of their deliverance is the covenant which God had been pleased to establish with them by blood. (“Zechariah 9” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.