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Zechariah 1:5-7
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Zechariah 1:5-7
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5 Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, can they live forever? 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:
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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.
Zechariah 1:5-7
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Zechariah 1:5-7
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5 Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But did not my words(A) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?(B)
“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,(C) just as he determined to do.’”(D)
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7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.(E)
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