Myrtle trees] rare in Palestine today, but once common around Jerusalem: cp. Nehemiah 8:15. They have no special significance in the vision. Bottom] RM 'shady place.' Red horses, speckled, and white] RV horses, 'red, sorrel, and white.' Some take the colours to indicate various countries whence the messenger came, but this is unlikely.
Verse Zechariah 1:8. _I SAW BY NIGHT_] The time was emblematical of the affliction under which the Jews groaned. _A MAN_] An angel in the form of a man: supposed to have been the _Lord Jesus_; who s...
I SAW IN THE NIGHT - that is, that following on “the twenty-fourth day.” The darkness of the night perhaps was chosen, as agreeing with the dimness of the restored condition. Night too is, Dionysius),...
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 section, to which Zechariah 1:7 is an editorial introduction, either is not the beginning of Zechariah's allegories, or has not come down to us in its original form, for the interpreting angel is...
I SAW, &c. In this first of the eight visions (Zechariah 1:8; Zechariah 6:15) Israel is in dispersion; the Gentiles are in possession at the time of the end. Jehovah is about to interfere on behalf of...
_by night_ or, _in the night_, R. V. As the Jewish day began at sunset, this would be the night preceding the twenty-fourth day of the month. If so, Zechariah may have recited these visions to the peo...
I SAW BY NIGHT— _I saw this night,_ &c. A _red horse_ is an emblem of war and destruction. The man or angel riding upon him is thought by some to have been the _archangel Michael,_ prince and protecto...
CHAPTER XXVII A VISION OF HORSES Zechariah 1:7-17 RV. Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Ze...
CHAPTER XXVIII A VISION OF FOUR HORNS AND SMITHS Zechariah 1:18-21 RV. And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns. And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these? And...
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. I SAW BY NIGHT. Th...
1:8 night, (b-4) Or 'that night.'...
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...
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in Zechariah 1:7 to...
I SAW. — Not in a dream, but apparently, from Zechariah 4:1, awake, in an ecstatic vision. BY NIGHT. — Better, _on this night._ LXX., τὴν νύκτα. It was during the night of the twenty-fourth of Sebat...
רָאִ֣יתִי ׀ הַ לַּ֗יְלָה וְ הִנֵּה ־אִישׁ֙ רֹ
3. EXPOSITION OF THE SEVERAL VISIONS For all the Visions there is one date, "in the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius." that is, January or Febru...
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
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...
I (i) saw by night, and behold (k) a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that [were] in the bottom; and behind him [were there] (l) red horses, speckled, and white. (i) Th...
_A man. An angel in the shape of a man. It was probably St. Michael, the guardian angel of the Church of God. (Challoner) --- It is plain that he was an angel, ver. 11. (Worthington) --- He appears in...
"Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prop...
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...
The Prophet says, that a vision was given him; and he saw a horseman among the myrtles sitting on a red horse; and with him there were horses red, variegated (18) and white, and having no doubt riders...
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...
I SAW BY NIGHT,.... Or, "that night" m; the night of the twenty fourth of Sebat; a proper and usual time for visions; and it may denote the obscurity of the vision, as it was in some respects to the p...
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that [were] in the bottom; and behind him [were there] red horses, speckled, and white. Ver. 8. _I saw by...
Zec. 1:8. "I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled and white." The gr...
_Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month_ That is, about three months after he had received the former vision; _which is the month Sebat_ This was the Chaldee or Syriac name of the eleve...
I saw by night, in a night vision, some time between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning, AND BEHOLD A MAN RIDING UPON A RED HORSE, the color of war and bloodshed, AND HE STOOD A...
THE VISION OF THE HORSES AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES...
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...
SPECKLED: Or, bay...
7-17 The prophet saw a dark, shady grove, hidden by hills. This represented the low, melancholy condition of the Jewish church. A man like a warrior sat on a red horse, in the midst of this shady myr...
I SAW: in a vision God communicates his word, mind, or will to the prophet. BY NIGHT; either literally, it was by night that Zechariah had this vision, or with this it may note the obscurity and myste...
Zechariah 1:8 saw H7200 (H8804) night H3915 man H376 riding H7392 (H8802) red H122 horse H5483
THE EIGHT NIGHT VISIONS AND ACCOMPANYING ORACLES (ZECHARIAH 1:7 TO ZECHARIAH 6:8). Zechariah now goes on to describe eight night visions, which he appears to have had in one night, which are in the m...
THE FIRST VISION. THE VISION OF THE HORSEMEN SCOUTS - GOD WILL NOW RESTORE HIS PEOPLE AND THE TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT (ZECHARIAH 1:7). Zechariah 1:7 ‘On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month, whic...
I SAW The "man" (Zechariah 1:8) is the "my lord," "the angel that talked with me" (Zechariah 1:9), and "the angel of the Lord" (Zechariah 1:10); ...
Zechariah 1:7 The rider in the myrtle grove. I. The prophet saw a grove of myrtle trees in a hollow or low place. By the myrtle grove all are agreed is signified the covenant people, the nation of Is...
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...
_I saw by night _ THE NIGHT VISION The anointed One of God and His kingdom are the centre and axis about which the fiery wheel of all Zechariah’s revelations and imagery turns. The vision in our te...
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 ...
ZECHARIAH 1:7 Eight Night Visions and a Sign-act. The eight visions that follow were all received in a single night shortly before the new year, a date often associated in the ancient Near East with t...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 1:5. FATHERS] have perished; their fate should warn you. But you may object, the _prophets_ also are dead, and apparently their words died with them. ZECHARIAH 1:6.] No; th...
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...
1 Kings 3:5; Daniel 2:19; Daniel 7:13; Daniel 7:2; Genesis 20:3;...
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...
A man — Christ Jesus in the shape of a man. Riding — In a posture of readiness. A red horse — This colour is a symbol of his coming to avenge himself on his enemies. The myrtle — trees — He posted him...