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Text -- Zechariah 1:1-17 (NET)
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Introduction
1:1 In the eighth month of Darius ’ second year , the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah , son of Berechiah son of Iddo , as follows :
1:2 The Lord was very angry with your ancestors .
1:3 Therefore say to the people: The Lord who rules over all says , “Turn to me,” says the Lord who rules over all , “and I will turn to you,” says the Lord who rules over all .
1:4 “Do not be like your ancestors , to whom the former prophets called out , saying , ‘The Lord who rules over all says , “Turn now from your evil wickedness ,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the Lord .
1:5 “As for your ancestors , where are they ? And did the prophets live forever ?
1:6 But have my words and statutes , which I commanded my servants the prophets , not outlived your fathers ? Then they paid attention and confessed , ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways .’”
The Introduction to the Visions
1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month , the month Shebat , in Darius ’ second year , the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo , as follows :
The Content of the First Vision
1:8 I was attentive that night and saw a man seated on a red horse that stood among some myrtle trees in the ravine . Behind him were red , sorrel , and white horses .
The Interpretation of the First Vision
1:9 Then I asked one nearby, “What are these , sir ?” The angelic messenger who replied to me said , “I will show you what these are.”
1:10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said , “These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk about on the earth .”
1:11 The riders then agreed with the angel of the Lord , who was standing among the myrtle trees , “We have been walking about on the earth , and now everything is at rest and quiet .”
1:12 The angel of the Lord then asked , “Lord who rules over all , how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years ?”
1:13 The Lord then addressed good , comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.
1:14 Turning to me, the messenger then said , “Cry out that the Lord who rules over all says , ‘I am very much moved for Jerusalem and for Zion .
1:15 But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted . I was a little displeased with them , but they have only made things worse for themselves.
The Oracle of Response
1:16 “‘Therefore ,’ says the Lord , ‘I have become compassionate toward Jerusalem and will rebuild my temple in it,’ says the Lord who rules over all . ‘Once more a surveyor’s measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem .’
1:17 Speak up again with the message of the Lord who rules over all : ‘My cities will once more overflow with prosperity , and once more the Lord will comfort Zion and validate his choice of Jerusalem .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Angel |
ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF |
Amos |
JOSHUA (3) |
Iddo |
Myrtle |
Prophets |
Vision |
Berechiah |
Israel |
Zion |
God |
Sebat |
Jesus, The Christ |
Angel of the Lord |
ZECHARIAH (1) |
Month |
Sorrel |
Barachiah |
GOD, 2 |
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NET Notes: Zec 1:1 Both Ezra (5:1; 6:14) and Nehemiah (12:16) speak of Zechariah as a son of Iddo only. A probable explanation is that Zechariah’s actual father Be...
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NET Notes: Zec 1:3 The Hebrew verb שׁוּב (shuv) is common in covenant contexts. To turn from the Lord is to break the covenant and to turn ...
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NET Notes: Zec 1:6 Heb “they turned” (so ASV). Many English versions have “they repented” here; cf. CEV “they turned back to me.”
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NET Notes: Zec 1:7 The twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month…in Darius’ second year was February 15, 519 b.c.
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NET Notes: Zec 1:10 The stem used here (Hitpael) with the verb “walk” (הָלַךְ, halakh) suggests the exercise of dominion (...
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NET Notes: Zec 1:11 The angel of the Lord is a special being who throughout the OT represents God himself and on occasion almost approaches divine hypostatization or inca...
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NET Notes: Zec 1:12 The seventy years refers to the predicted period of Babylonian exile, a period with flexible beginning and ending points depending on the particular c...
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NET Notes: Zec 1:14 Heb “jealous for” (so KJV, ASV); NIV, NRSV “very jealous for”; CEV “very protective of.” The meaning is that Jerus...
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NET Notes: Zec 1:15 Or “the nations that are at ease” (so ASV, NRSV). The Hebrew word in question is שַׁאֲנָן ...
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