Zechariah 1:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 But my words and my statutes, with which I charged my servants the prophets, did these not overtake your ancestors?(A) Then they repented[a] and admitted: “Just as the Lord of hosts intended to treat us according to our ways and deeds, so the Lord has done.”
First Vision: Horses Patrolling the Earth.(B) 7 In the second year of Darius, on the twenty-fourth day of Shebat, the eleventh month,[b] the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo:
8 [c]I looked out in the night,[d] and there was a man mounted on a red horse standing in the shadows among myrtle trees; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
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- 1:6 Repented: the Hebrew word shub literally means “turn back.” This term is often used to speak of repentance as a return to the covenantal relationship between Israel and the Lord.
- 1:7 The second year…eleventh month: February 15, 519 B.C. The largest set of visions (1:7–6:15) is dated to a time just prior to the beginning of the new year in the spring.
- 1:8–11 Four riders on horses of three different colors are sent by God to patrol the four corners of the earth. Compare the four chariots of the seventh vision, 6:1–8.
- 1:8 In the night: nighttime, or this night. This setting of darkness is meant only for the first vision.
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