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1. (1) The prophet and his times. In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, a. In the eighth month of the second year of Darius: Zechariah served the LORD in the years after the remnant returned from the 70-year Babylonian exile.
Zechariah 1–8, sometimes referred to as First Zechariah, was written in the 6th century BC and contains oracles from the historical prophet Zechariah, who lived in the Achaemenid Empire during the kingdom of Darius the Great. [7] Zechariah 9–14, often called Second Zechariah, contains within the text no datable references to specific events ...
Jul 22, 2022 · Answer. The prophet Zechariah is just one of over thirty men named Zechariah in the Old Testament. His name means “Yahweh has remembered,” which might also be a good summary of the prophetic work that bears his name. We know little about Zechariah personally except that he was a priest as well as a prophet and was a contemporary of ...
Zechariah 1. A Call to Repentance. ( Jeremiah 3:11–25; Hosea 14:1–3) 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying: 2 “The LORD was very angry with your fathers. 3 So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me ...
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Mar 2, 2018 · Chapters 9-14 differ in style from the first eight chapters, but scholars have reconciled those variations and conclude Zechariah is the author of the entire book. Zechariah's prophesies about the Messiah would not come to pass in his readers' lifetimes, but they served to encourage them that God is faithful to his Word.
- Jack Zavada
The first and last visions (Zech. 1:8-17, 6:1-8) are about four horsemen, who are like rangers patrolling the world on God’s behalf. They represent God’s attentive watch over the nations, and their report is that the world is at peace (Zech. 1:11, 6:8). In Zechariah’s day, God raised up Persia to conquer Babylon and bring relative peace.
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth. the man. Zechariah 1:8,11 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white…
