Zechariah 1:2

1:2 The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. ¹ 

Zechariah 1:20

1:20 Next the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. ² 

Zechariah 4:8

4:8 Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me as follows:

Zechariah 6:9

A Concluding Oracle

6:9 The word of the Lord came to me as follows:

Zechariah 7:4

7:4 The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,

Zechariah 7:8

7:8 Again the word of the Lord came to Zechariah:

Zechariah 8:1

The Blessing of True Fasting

8:1 Then the word of the Lord who rules over all ³  came to me as follows:

Zechariah 8:18

8:18 The word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows:

¹ tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB); NIV “forefathers” (also in vv. 4, 5).

² tn Heb “craftsmen” (so NASB, NIV; KJV “carpenters”), a generic term which can mean “metalworker, smith, armorer” (HALOT 358 s.v. חָרָשׁ). “Blacksmiths” was chosen for the present translation because of its relative familiarity among contemporary English readers.

³ sn Lord who rules over all. There is a remarkable concentration of this name of God in this section of Zechariah. Of 53 occurrences of יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת (yÿhvah tsÿva’ot) in the Hebrew text in the book, 18 are in this chapter. The reason is the sheer human impossibility of accomplishing what lies ahead – it must be done by the Lord who rules over all.