But did not my words and my statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, take hold of [a]your fathers? and [b]they returned, and said, As the Lord of hosts hath determined to do unto us according to our own ways, and according to our works, so hath he dealt with us.

Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month [c]Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the Prophet, saying,

I [d]saw by night, and behold [e]a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a bottom, and behind him were there [f]red horses speckled and white.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:6 Seeing ye saw the force of my doctrine in punishing your fathers, why do ye not fear the threatenings contained in the same, and declared by my Prophets?
  2. Zechariah 1:6 As men astonished with my judgments, and not that they were touched with true repentance.
  3. Zechariah 1:7 Which containeth part of January and part of February.
  4. Zechariah 1:8 This vision signifieth the restoration of the Church: but as yet it should not appear to man’s eyes, which is here meant by the night, by the bottom, and by the myrrh trees which are black, and give a dark shadow, yet he compareth God to a King, who hath his posts and messengers abroad by whom he still worketh his purpose and bringeth his matters to pass.
  5. Zechariah 1:8 Who was the chief among the rest of the horsemen.
  6. Zechariah 1:8 These signified the divers offices of God’s Angels by whom God sometimes punisheth and sometimes comforteth and bringeth forth his works in divers sorts.

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