Zechariah 14:18 meaning and explanation

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:18, Berean Standard Bible

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Zechariah pictures the survivors of the nations coming to Jerusalem each year for the Feast of Tabernacles, a harvest festival that also recalled Israel's wilderness years. Egypt is named specifically, likely because it was Israel's classic oppressor and relied on the Nile rather than on rain.

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