Zechariah 2:7

2:7 “Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!” ¹ 

Zechariah 6:10

6:10 “Choose some people ²  from among the exiles, namely, Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, all of whom have come from Babylon, and when you have done so go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. ³ 

Zechariah 4:7

Oracle of Response

4:7 “What are you, you great mountain? ⁴  Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple ⁵  capstone with shoutings of ‘Grace! Grace!’ ⁶  because of this.”

Zechariah 7:3

7:3 by asking both the priests of the temple ⁷  of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, ⁸  fasting as we have done over the years?”

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “live in [or “with” (cf. NASB), i.e., “among”] the daughter of Babylon” (so NIV; NAB “dwell in daughter Babylon”).

[6:10]  ² tn The words “some people” are supplied in the translation. The Hebrew verb translated “choose” (alternatively “take” [NAB, NIV]; “collect” [NRSV, CEV]) has no direct object specified in the text. Some translations supply “silver and gold” (NIV, NRSV) or “an offering” (NASB).

[6:10]  ³ sn Except for Joshua (v. 11) none of these individuals is otherwise mentioned and therefore they cannot be further identified.

[4:7]  ³ sn In context, the great mountain here must be viewed as a metaphor for the enormous task of rebuilding the temple and establishing the messianic kingdom (cf. TEV “Obstacles as great as mountains”).

[4:7]  ⁴ tn The word “temple” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent (cf. NLT “final stone of the Temple”).

[4:7]  ⁵ sn Grace is a fitting response to the idea that it was “not by strength and not by power” but by God’s gracious Spirit that the work could be done (cf. v. 6).

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[7:3]  ⁵ sn This lamentation marked the occasion of the destruction of Solomon’s temple on August 14, 586 b.c., almost exactly 70 years earlier (cf. 2 Kgs 25:8).