Verse 10
10. This explanation is supplied by the further unfolding of the vision. The man among the myrtles (Zechariah 1:8) is the first to speak.
Answered The Hebrew verb does not mean necessarily to reply to a question, sometimes it is used in the sense of begin to speak; so here. The words are not intended as a reply to Zechariah; they are addressed to the “angel of Jehovah” (Zechariah 1:11), to whom the man presents his followers, that they may report the result of their investigations. The prophet, as an interested bystander, could learn the significance of the vision from this report and from the dialogue which took place subsequently between the angel and Jehovah.
These The men upon the horses of different colors, who are introduced as messengers of Jehovah, commissioned to “walk to and fro through the earth.” Their duty seems to have been purely to find out conditions and report on them; there is no indication that they were to interfere in any way with “terrestrial matters.”
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