In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s 1 word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying, Mat 23:35Neh 12:4Ezr 4:24Hag 1:1Zec 1:7Zec 7:1Hag 2:10Luk 11:51 “The LORD was very displeased with your fathers. Jer 44:6Ezk 22:31Lam 5:7Psa 79:5-6Act 7:52Mat 23:30-32Zep 2:1-32Ch 36:13-20 Therefore tell them, the LORD of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Armies. Jer 3:22Mal 3:7Jol 2:12Deu 30:2-10Jer 4:1Hos 6:1Isa 31:6Jer 12:15 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The LORD of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says the LORD. Psa 78:8Ezk 33:11Jer 35:15Psa 106:6-72Ch 36:15-16Isa 1:16-19Jer 11:6-8Mat 3:8-10 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 2Pe 3:2-4Ecc 12:5Ecc 12:7Heb 9:27Job 14:10-12Psa 90:10Act 13:36Ecc 1:4 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? Lam 2:17Ezk 12:25-28Deu 28:15Jer 23:20Mat 24:35Amo 9:10Dan 9:11-12Jer 44:28
“Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying, Zec 1:1 “I had a vision in the night, and behold, 2 a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses. Rev 6:4Isa 55:13Isa 41:19Rev 2:1Zec 13:71Ki 3:5Dan 2:19Dan 7:13 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” Rev 7:13-14Zec 4:4-5Dan 9:22-23Gen 31:11Zec 1:19Zec 2:3Zec 5:5Dan 10:11-14
The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the earth.” Zec 1:11Heb 1:14Zec 6:5-8Job 1:7Job 2:1-2Psa 103:20-21Zec 1:8Zec 4:10
They reported to the LORD’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.” Zec 1:10Mat 24:30-31Psa 103:20-21Zec 1:15Zec 1:81Th 5:3Dan 10:20Isa 14:7
Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?” Dan 9:2Jer 29:10Psa 102:13Psa 74:10Zec 7:5Rev 6:102Ch 36:21Heb 7:25
The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. Isa 40:1-2Jer 29:10Amo 9:11-15Jer 30:10-22Jer 31:3-14Zec 1:14-16Zec 1:9Zec 2:4-12 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. Jol 2:18Isa 40:6Isa 40:1Zec 1:17Zec 1:9Hos 11:8Isa 38:22Isa 42:13 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.” Ezk 25:12-17Jer 51:24Isa 54:8Isa 47:6-9Isa 10:5-7Jer 48:11-13Oba 1:10-16Psa 123:4 Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’ Zec 8:3Ezk 37:24-28Ezr 6:14-15Zec 2:10-11Isa 54:8-10Job 38:5Zec 4:9Ezk 39:25-29
“Proclaim further, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’” Isa 51:3Zec 2:122Ch 6:6Ezk 36:10-11Isa 14:1Isa 44:26Isa 54:8Isa 61:4-6
I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns. 2Ki 24:1-20Dan 8:3-14Jos 5:13Zec 5:92Ki 15:292Ki 17:1-62Ki 18:9-12Dan 11:28-35 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” Ezr 4:4Zec 1:21Zec 2:2Zec 8:14Ezr 4:1Ezr 4:7Jer 50:17-18Zec 1:9
He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
The LORD showed me four craftsmen. Zec 10:3-5Zec 12:2-6Zec 9:12-161Sa 12:11Deu 33:25Isa 54:15-17Jdg 11:16Jdg 11:18 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” Psa 75:10Lam 2:17Psa 75:4-5Zec 1:19Dan 12:7
He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”