Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zechariah 1:1
In the eighth month — Two months after Haggai began to encourage the Jews to build the temple. Zechariah — Probably this is that Zechariah whom the Jews slew between the temple and the altar, Matthew 23:35.
In the eighth month — Two months after Haggai began to encourage the Jews to build the temple. Zechariah — Probably this is that Zechariah whom the Jews slew between the temple and the altar, Matthew 23:35.
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH _Chronological Notes relative to this Book_ -Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3484. -Year of the Julian Period, 4194. -Year of the Jewish er...
IN THE EIGHTH MONTH - o. The date joins on Zechariah’s prophecy to those of Haggai. Two months before, “in the sixth month” Haggai 1:1, had Haggai, conjointly with Zechariah Ezra 5:1, exhorted Zerubba...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS 1. THE NIGHT VISIONS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Zechariah 1:1) _ 2. The first night vision (Zechariah 1:7) 3. The second night vision (Zechariah 1:18)...
This rebuke (see above, p. 575) seems inconsistent with a date five weeks or more after work had been begun at the Temple and at least ten days after the prophecy in Haggai 2:1. The clumsy handiwork o...
IN THE EIGHTH MONTH, &c. Zechariah's first prophecy is dated (Zechariah 1:1) "in the eighth month in the second year of Darius" (Hystaspis) (410 b. c.). sixteen years after the Decree of Cyrus. It thu...
Zechariah 1:1-6. Introductory call to Repentance 1. The Author and date of his first Prophecy _the eighth month, in the second year of Darius_ The Jews after the Captivity substituted for the years o...
IN THE EIGHTH MONTH— Zechariah begins his prophesy with an exhortation to the people to be converted to the Lord, and not to imitate the stubbornness of their forefathers. Three months afterwards, Zec...
CHAPTER XXVI INTRODUCTION TO SECTION I Zechariah 1:1-6 RV. In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the proph...
In the eighth month, 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, The man among the myrtles-Comforting explanat...
1:1 (d-0) * (The title of this Book, 'Zechariah'), Said to mean, 'Whom Jah remembers.' Darius, (e-10) As Haggai 1:1 ....
THE EIGHTH MONTH] the month Bul (see 1 Kings 6:38), corresponding to part of October-November. THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS] i.e. 520 b.c. This was the first Darius, son of Hystaspes, who had just succee...
LESSONS FROM THE PAST. THE FIRST AND SECOND VISIONS 1-6. The Prophet's message. He calls the people to repentance. 8-17. The First Vision: The Divine Messengers ever watching over the affairs of the...
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ‘The *prophet (Zechariah) said that these events would happen. And these events did happen.’ (Matthew 21:4) (A *prophet tells people what G...
THE PROPHET is (in spite of the accents), no doubt, to be referred to Zechariah. (See further in my _Hebrew Student Commentary._) LXX., πρὸς Ζαχαριαν τὸν τοῦ Βαραχιου υἱὸν Αδδω τὸν προφήτην, in which...
(1-6) On the four-and-twentieth day of the sixth mouth of the second year (B.C. 520) of Darius Hystaspis, the re-building of the Temple had been resumed (Haggai 1:15); and in the seventh month, on the...
בַּ † חֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ הַ שְּׁמִינִ֔י בִּ שְׁנַ֥ת...
ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET Zechariah 1:1; Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14 ZECHARIAH is one of the prophets whose personality as distinguished from their message exerts some degree of fascination on the student. This...
A VISION OF PARDON AND RESTORATION Zechariah 1:1-17 Zechariah does not slur over the sins of the past, but lays stress on the divine forgiveness. His only fear is lest God should call in vain, and th...
About a month after Haggai's second message, in which he had encouraged the people who were in danger of being disheartened by the memory of the past, Zechariah uttered his first prophetic word. He ga...
In the eighth month, in the second year of (a) Darius, came the word of the LORD unto (b) Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, The Argument - Two months after Haggai h...
_Barachias adopted him, (1 Esdras v. 1.) or rather Addo was his grandfather._...
CONTENTS The Prophet soon enters upon the account of his vision, after giving his name, and descent, and the date of his prophecy. The close of this Chapter is with gracious promises to Jerusalem. Z...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
We here learn what we have already stated, — that Haggai and Zechariah were by God joined together, that they might confirm each other’s doctrine, for they had to do with a refractory people: besides,...
The Spirit of God begins with an exhortation, founded on the proofs that the history of the people supplied of the manner in which the word of the prophets had taken hold of them. Jehovah's displeasur...
IN THE EIGHTH MONTH,.... The month Marchesvan, called the month Bul, in 1 Kings 6:38 which answers to part of our October, and part of November: this was but two months from the first prophecy of Hagg...
In the eighth month, 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, Ver. 1. _In the eight month, in the second year...
_In the eighth month_ This month, according to that reckoning which begins the year with the month Abib, or Nisan, Exodus 12:2, falls in with the latter part of our October, and the beginning of Novem...
A CALL TO REPENTANCE...
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, that is, in the year 520 B. C. CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO ZECHARIAH, THE SON OF BERECHIAH, THE SON OF IDDO, THE PROPHET, SAYING,...
GOD'S CALL TO RETURN TO HIM (vv. 1-6) Zechariah's name means "Jehovah remembers." He was the son of Berechiah ("Jehovah blesses") who was the son of Iddo ("the appointed time"). Israel had long been...
1-6 God's almighty power and sovereign dominion, should engage and encourage sinners to repent and turn to Him. It is very desirable to have the Lord of hosts for our friend, and very dreadful to hav...
Courier New; ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 1 Zechariah exhorteth to repentance, MALACHI 1:1 . His vision of the horses and their angelic riders, MALACHI 1:7 . At the prayer of the angel comfortable promises are...
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GOD'S CALL TO THE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HIM AND LIVE IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS DEMANDS - THE OFFER OF A NEW BEGINNING (ZECHARIAH 1:1). Zechariah is the prophet of the new beginning, but as is always so with...
EIGHTH MONTH That is, November....
CONTENTS: Zechariah's symbolic visions, warning of Jehovah's dispreasure with the nations. CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: The judgments of God which those who went before us were un...
Zechariah 1:1. _Zechariah;_ that is, the memory of God; a name which might seem prophetic, for the Lord remembered his people while yet in Babylon. He was contemporary with Haggai, and acted in concer...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 1:1 Oracles and Visions. Zechariah’s sequence of visions in Zechariah 1:7 is interrupted by an oracle of restoration ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 1:2. SORE] Lit. displeased with displeasure, wrath not common, whose greatness is given as a ground for their return. ZECHARIAH 1:3. THEREFORE] Lit. and thou sayest, or mus...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-6:15 Part I. A SERIES OF EIGHT VISIONS, AND A SYMBOLICAL ACTION. ZECHARIAH 1:1 § 1. _Title of the book, and author. _THE EIGHTH MONTH. This was called Bul before the Captivit
Shall we tonight now get into our study in the book of Zechariah beginning with chapter 1. Now if you remember when we studied the book of Haggai last week, Haggai was dating his prophesies in the sec...
Ezra 4:24; Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:15; Haggai 1:1; Haggai 1:15;...
THE MAN AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES Zechariah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The visions have to do primarily with God's dealings with His chosen people Israel. They will, however, be full of lessons for the sai...