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Text -- Zechariah 6:1-9 (NET)

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Vision Eight: The Chariots
6:1 Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze. 6:2 Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses, 6:3 to the third white horses, and to the fourth spotted horses, all of them strong. 6:4 Then I asked the angelic messenger who was speaking with me, “What are these, sir?” 6:5 The messenger replied, “These are the four spirits of heaven that have been presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth. 6:6 The chariot with the black horses is going to the north country and the white ones are going after them, but the spotted ones are going to the south country. 6:7 All these strong ones are scattering; they have sought permission to go and walk about over the earth.” The Lord had said, “Go! Walk about over the earth!” So they are doing so. 6:8 Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me peace about the northland.”
A Concluding Oracle
6:9 The word of the Lord came to me as follows:
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Chariot | ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF | JOSHUA (3) | Vision | FOUR | COLOR; COLORS | Colour | Bitumen | Bay | Grizzled | HORSE, BLACK | HORSE, WHITE | Jeshua | Prophecy | Bronze | Joshua | UNCHANGEABLE; UNCHANGEABLENESS | HILL; MOUNT; MOUNTAIN | JEREMIAH (2) | METALS | more
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NET Notes: Zec 6:1 Bronze, a hard, almost impenetrable metal, is an apt figure to speak of the obstacles standing in the way of the accomplishment of God’s purpose...

NET Notes: Zec 6:3 For the MT reading אֲמֻצִּים (’amutsim, “strong”) Aquila and Syriac presuppose...

NET Notes: Zec 6:4 See the note on the expression “angelic messenger” in 1:9.

NET Notes: Zec 6:5 The Hebrew term translated “spirit” here may also be translated “wind” or “breath” depending on the context (cf. A...

NET Notes: Zec 6:7 The present translation takes אֲמֻצִּים (’amutsim, “strong”) to be a descripti...

NET Notes: Zec 6:8 The immediate referent of peace about the northland is to the peace brought by Persia’s conquest of Babylonia, a peace that allowed the restorat...

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