Zechariah 1
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Introduction
1 Zechariah exhorts to repentance.
7 The vision of the horses.
12 At the prayer of the angel comfortable promises are made to Jerusalem.
18 The vision of the four horns and the four carpenters.
Verse 1
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
the eighth
7; 7:1; Ezra 4:24; 6:15; Haggai 1:1,15; 2:1,10,20
Zechariah
Ezra 5:1; Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51
Iddo
Nehemiah 12:4,16
Verse 2
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
Lord
2 Kings 22:16,17,19; 23:26; 2 Chronicles 36:13-20; Ezra 9:6,7,13; Nehemiah 9:26,27; Psalms 60:1; 79:5,6; Jeremiah 44:6; Lamentations 1:12-15; 2:3-5; 3:42-45; 5:7; Ezekiel 22:31; Daniel 9:11,12; Zephaniah 2:1-3; Matthew 23:30-32; Acts 7:52
sore displeased
Heb. with displeasure.
Verse 3
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Turn
Deuteronomy 4:30,31; 30:2-10; 1 Kings 8:47,48; 2 Chronicles 15:4; 30:6-9; Nehemiah 9:28; Isaiah 31:6; 55:6,7; Jeremiah 3:12-14,22; 4:1; 25:5; 35:15; Lamentations 3:39-41; Ezekiel 33:11; Hosea 6:1; 14:1; Joel 2:12; Malachi 3:7; Luke 15:18-20; James 4:8-10; Jeremiah 12:15; 29:12-14; 31:18-20; Hosea 14:4; Micah 7:19,20; Luke 15:21,22
Verse 4
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
as
2 Chronicles 29:6-10; 30:7; 34:21; Ezra 9:7; Nehemiah 9:16; Psalms 78:8; 106:6,7; Ezekiel 18:14-17; 1 Peter 1:18
unto
7:11-13; 2 Chronicles 24:19-22; 36:15,16; Nehemiah 9:26,30; Isaiah 30:9-11; Jeremiah 6:16,17; 13:16-18; 17:19-23; 25:3-7; 35:15; 36:2,3-10; 44:4,5; Ezekiel 3:7-9; Micah 2:6; Acts 7:51,52; 1 Thessalonians 2:15,16
Turn
3; Isaiah 1:16-19; 31:6; Jeremiah 3:12; 7:3-7; 18:11; Ezekiel 18:30-32; 33:11; Hosea 14:1; Amos 5:13-15,24; Matthew 3:8-10; Acts 3:19; 26:20
but
Jeremiah 11:6-8; 13:9,10; 26:5; 36:23,24; 44:16
Verse 5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Job 14:10-12; Psalms 90:10; Ecclesiastes 1:4; 9:1-3; 12:5,7; Acts 13:36; Hebrews 7:23,24; Hebrews 9:27; 2 Peter 3:2-4
Verse 6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
my words
Isaiah 55:1
did
Numbers 23:19; 32:23; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Isaiah 44:26; Jeremiah 26:15; 44:28; Ezekiel 12:25-28; Daniel 9:11,12; Matthew 24:35
take hold of
or, overtake.
Deuteronomy 28:15,45; Jeremiah 12:16; Amos 9:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:4
they returned
Job 6:29; Malachi 3:18
Like
Lamentations 1:18; 2:17; 4:11,12; Ezekiel 37:11
thought
Numbers 33:56; Jeremiah 23:20
according to our ways
Deuteronomy 28:20; Isaiah 3:8-11; Jeremiah 4:4; 18:8-11; Ezekiel 20:43; Hosea 9:15; 2:6-11
Verse 7
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
A. M. 3845. B.C. 519. the eleventh
Sebat
Sebat is the Chaldee name of the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year, but the fifth of the civil year, answering to part of January and February.
Verse 8
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
by night
Genesis 20:3; 1 Kings 3:5; Job 4:13; Daniel 2:19; 7:2,13
behold
13:7; Joshua 5:13; Psalms 45:3,4; Isaiah 63:1-4
riding
6:2-7; Revelation 6:4; 19:19-21
among
Song of Solomon 2:16; 6:2; Isaiah 41:19; 55:13; 57:15; Revelation 2:1
speckled
or, bay.
6:6,7
Verse 9
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
what
19; 4:4,11; 6:4; Daniel 7:16; 8:15; Revelation 7:13,14
the angel
2:3; 4:5; 5:5; 6:4,5; Genesis 31:11; Daniel 8:16; 9:22,23; 10:11-14; Revelation 17:1-7; 19:9,10; 22:8-16
Verse 10
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
the man
8,11; 13:7; Genesis 32:24-31; Hosea 12:3-5
These
11; 4:10; 6:5-8; Job 2:1,2; Psalms 103:20,21; Ezekiel 1:5-14; Hebrews 1:14