Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Zechariah 1:9
O my lord] addressing the angel of the Lord, who has not yet been mentioned.
10. The figure is military and suggests horsemen hovering on the flanks of an army—the scouts of God's great host.
O my lord] addressing the angel of the Lord, who has not yet been mentioned.
10. The figure is military and suggests horsemen hovering on the flanks of an army—the scouts of God's great host.
Verse Zechariah 1:9. _O MY LORD, WHAT_ ARE _THESE_] The angel here mentioned was distinct from those mentioned in the _eighth_ verse; he who talked with the prophet, Zechariah 1:13....
WHAT ARE THESE? - He asks, not who, but what they import. THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME - Literally, “spake in me.” The very rare expression seems meant to convey the thought of an inward speaking, wh...
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...
MY LORD. Hebrew. _Adonai_. App-4. ANGEL. See verses: Zechariah 1:11; Zechariah 1:12; Zechariah 1:13; Zechariah 1:14;
_O my lord_ This question is addressed to the interpreting angel, of whose presence we are for the first time made aware by the fact that he replies to it. _the angel that talked with me_ This is the...
THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME— This was another heavenly minister, sent probably to present the visions to the prophet's imagination, as well as to explain them. Vitringa styles him, _Angelus comes et...
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...
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...
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME - not the "man upon the red horse among the myr...
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...
O MY LORD. — This is addressed to “the angel that talked with me,” or, perhaps, _in me,_ according as we regard him as discharging the office of the Virgil of Dante, or the Daimon of Socrates (but, se...
וָ אֹמַ֖ר מָה ־אֵ֣לֶּה אֲדֹנִ֑י וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
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...
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...
"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 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...
THEN SAID I, O MY LORD,.... These are the words of the Prophet Zechariah to the angel that showed him this vision: WHAT ARE THESE? what is the meaning of this vision? particularly who are meant by th...
Then said I, O my lord, what [are] these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these [be]. Ver. 9. _Then said I, O my Lord, what are these?_] Thus the prophets inquir...
_Then said I, O my Lord, what are these_ What is the meaning of these appearances, or visions? _And the angel that talked with me said_ “This was another heavenly minister, sent, probably, to present...
THE VISION OF THE HORSES AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES...
Then said I, anxious to know what the Lord intended to make known through this vision, O MY LORD, WHAT ARE THESE? AND THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME SAID UNTO ME, I WILL SHOW THEE WHAT THESE BE, for th...
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...
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...
THEN; so soon as he had seen and observed. Said I; Zechariah. O MY LORD: this was Christ the Lord of hosts. WHAT ARE THESE? what is the meaning of these appearances or visions? THE ANGEL; Christ, the...
Zechariah 1:9 said H559 (H8799) lord H113 angel H4397 talked H1696 (H8802) said H559 (H8799) show...
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...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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...
Daniel 10:11; Daniel 7:16; Daniel 8:15; Daniel 8:16; Daniel 9:22;...
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...
O my Lord — This was Christ, the Lord of hosts. What are these — What is the meaning of these appearances. The angel — Christ, the angel of the covenant....