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Dec 12, 2014 · Like us, Zechariah’s faith represented a remnant of believers who found themselves –salmon-like–swimming upstream in an increasingly secular society. Scientific materialism hadn’t yet reared its ugly head in the first century—one of the many reasons for today’s worldly drift—but a loss of hope was starting to permeate Israel’s ...
Oct 25, 2023 · There are a few prominent men in the Bible named Zechariah (alternate spelling Zacharias or Zachariah). One was an Old Testament prophet who prophesied in the days of Haggai and who wrote the book of Zechariah (Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1). This prophet is also mentioned by Jesus as having been murdered by the rebellious and disobedient Jews of his ...
Zechariah (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryā, "remember Yah"; Greek: Ζαχαρίας; Zacharias in KJV; Zachary in the Douay–Rheims Bible; Zakariyya (Arabic: زكـريـا, romanized: Zakariyyā) in Islamic tradition) is a Jewish figure in the New Testament and the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam.
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Discover the basics of the book of Zechariah with the ESV Study Bible from Crossway, video from The Bible Project, audio from Mark Dever, and more. Topics: Christian Foundations
- Zechariah is a priest. A priest is someone whose responsibilities included offering sacrifices and taking care of the Temple of the Lord, and blessing the Lord’s name (1 Chr 23:13).
- Zechariah is from the tribe of Levi. In Bible times, the Jews traced their ancestry back to one of Jacob’s twelve sons. Zechariah is from the tribe of Levi, the same tribes that Moses, Aaron, Ezra, and Asaph hail from.
- Zechariah followed the law of Moses. Luke tells us that both Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth were “blameless” when it came to the Torah: they observed all the Lord’s decrees and commands (Lk 1:6).
- Zechariah is the first person in the NT to speak with an angel (chronologically) Most of our stories of Jesus’ birth start with an angel speaking to either Mary or Joseph, right?
Oct 25, 2023 · Answer. Zechariah (also called Zacharias or Zachariah) was a priest from the tribe of Levi who served the Lord during the reign of Herod in Judea. Zechariah’s wife, Elizabeth, was also a descendant of Aaron, and the Bible says they were godly, devout people ( Luke 1:5–6 ).
c. 520 b.c. Zechariah prophesied to the people of Judah soon after they had returned from exile in Babylon. Several years earlier, in 539 b.c., Cyrus the Great had conquered Babylon and absorbed its territory into his empire. A year later he permitted the people of Judah to return to their homeland and rebuild the temple.
