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But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “Lord All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”

First Vision: Horses and Riders

7-8 (A) On the twenty-fourth day of Shebat,[a] which was the eleventh month of that same year,[b] the Lord spoke to me in a vision during the night: In a valley among myrtle trees,[c] I saw someone on a red horse, with riders on red, brown, and white horses behind him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.7,8 Shebat: The eleventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-January to mid-February.
  2. 1.7,8 that same year: See verse 1 and the note there.
  3. 1.7,8 myrtle trees: Evergreen shrubs, which in ancient times were symbols of fertility and renewal.

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)

The Man Among the Myrtle Trees

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)

During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red(F) horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.(G)

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