Zechariah 1:1, Zechariah 1:7 NIV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zechariah 1:1-6

1:1-6:15 ZECHARIAH’S VISIONSCall to repentance (1:1-6)At the time Zechariah delivered his first message, Haggai had already been preaching for about two months (1:1; cf. Haggai 1:1). In his two recorded messages of that time, Haggai had shown that all Israel’s current difficulties were because of the people’s selfishness and disobedience in failing to rebuild the temple. As a result of Haggai’s preaching the people stirred themselves and started building again (Haggai 1:1-2:9).Zechariah now... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zechariah 1:1

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 thus comes midway between Haggai's second and third messages. See notes on Haggai 1:1-10 . Modern critics first assume that the day ought to be named, and then further assume that it has "fallen out accidentally"! Darius. Darius (Hystaspis). See App-57 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 , ... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 1:1

This chapter has one of the most impressive calls to righteousness in the whole Bible (Zechariah 1:1-6), and the first two of eight remarkable visions: (1) that of the horsemen in the myrtle grove (Zechariah 1:7-11), with the divine interpretation of the vision (Zechariah 1:11-17), and (2) the vision of the four horns and the four smiths, including its divine interpretation (Zechariah 1:18-21).Despite the purpose of Zechariah's prophecy being that of conveying comfort, consolation, and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 1:1

Zechariah 1:1. 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 1:7 the Lord caused to appear to him an angel on horseback in the midst of a myrtle grove, standing by the side of a river. Several other angels come to the first, and acquaint him, that the whole country was at peace and abounded with inhabitants. He thence takes occasion to... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 1:1

1. See :- read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 1:1

The writer identified the time when this first word from the Lord came to Zechariah and who he was. "The word of the Lord" is a technical term meaning the prophetic word of revelation. The eighth month of the second year of Darius was October-November of 520 B.C. Evidently Haggai began ministering two months earlier to the same audience and ended his prophetic ministry one month later (Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:10; Haggai 2:20; cf. Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14). Since there was no human king of Israel then,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 1:1-6

I. INTRODUCTION 1:1-6That this pericope introduces the whole book seems clear since Zechariah 1:7 introduces the eight night visions that follow it (Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:8). Its content is also foundational to all that follows."It strikes the keynote of the entire book, and is one of the strongest and most intensely spiritual calls to repentance to be found anywhere in the Old Testament." [Note: George L. Robinson, The Twelve Minor Prophets, p. 150. Cf. Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Toward an... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 1:1-21

Lessons from the Past. The First and Second Visions1-6. 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 nations. 18-21. The Second Vision: Hostile nations subdued by divinely-appointed agents.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 succeeded to the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zechariah 1:1

(1) 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 υἱὸν appears to be a corruption of υἱοῦ, caused by the common Greek collocation τὸν τὸῦ . . . υἱὸν. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zechariah 1:1-6

(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 twenty-first of that month, the prophet Haggai had foretold “the latter glory of this house shall be greater than its former” (Haggai 2:9); and now, but a few weeks later, Zechariah receives his mission. He is commanded to exhort the people to avoid such punishments as fell on their fathers, and... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zechariah 1:1-6

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zechariah 1:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 1:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 1:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 1:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 1:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 1:1-6

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 1:1-21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zechariah 1:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zechariah 1:1-6

Group of Brands