Zechariah 1:8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 1:7-17

The First Vision. The Vision of the Horsemen Scouts - God Will Now Restore His People and the Temple Will Be Built (Zechariah 1:7-17 ). Zechariah 1:7-10 ‘On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of YHWH came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, “I saw in the night and behold a man riding on a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom (the hollow), and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 1:7-21

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 main accompanied by oracles. These portray the commencement of the new beginning and are as follows: · The Horsemen Scouts go through the whole earth and find it at rest - Jerusalem will be restored (Zechariah 1:7-17). · The Four Horns and the Four Smiths - the opposing nations will be pared back... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 1:7-17

Zechariah 1:7-Esther : . 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 mentioned in Zechariah 1:9 as already known to the reader. A verse introducing him may, however, have been omitted between Zechariah 1:8 and Zechariah 1:9, since the opening words of Zechariah 1:8 imply that we have here the beginning of the allegorical prophecies.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 1:8

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 mysteriousness of the vision, for it may be emblematical, as the myrtles and the bottom are. Behold; mark well what I saw, as now I relate it to you. A man; one in human shape, Christ Jesus in shape of a man so he appeared to Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 40:3, and to Daniel, Daniel 7:13. Riding; in a... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Zechariah 1:5-13

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; the threatenings take hold; overtake them as one flying from the foe. The words and statutes (decrees) of God uttered by the prophets reached them like arrows shot forth, and fulfilled threatened punishment (cf. Deuteronomy 28:15-45). Thought] Decreed to do (Lamentations 2:17). Zechariah 1:7.] The... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Zechariah 1:7-17

Zechariah 1:7-17 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 Israel, and by its being in a low place is indicated their depressed and sad condition. In the Hebrew mind the idea of modest beauty and freshness was associated with the myrtle, and hence we find this introduced as symbolical of the Church under the reign of the Messiah, when, "instead of the... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Zechariah 1:8

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 1:11). The "man" "stood among the myrtle trees" (Zechariah 1:8). The prophet addresses him as "my lord" (cf) Genesis 19:2 but when the "man" answers he perceives that he has addressed an angel--"the angel that talked with me" (Zechariah 1:9). In Zechariah 1:10 the being of the vision is again "the man that stood among the myrtle trees." In... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Zechariah 1:1-21

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 second year of Darius the king. His first prophecy was in, I think, the sixth month of the second year. He had another prophecy in the seventh month, and his last prophecy was in the ninth month.Now Zechariah also dates his prophesies in the reign of Darius, the Medo-Persian king. So between... and at... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 1:1-21

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 concert with him. The Lord inspired him to speak of events which would befal the jews, till the advent of Christ; and to lose his views in the effulgence of the latter day. He foresaw, as Daniel did, the succession of the four monarchies to the coming of Christ, and the full establishment of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 1:7-11

Zechariah 1:7-11I saw by night The night visionThe 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 text is both beautiful and consoling. Consider--I. The time when it was seen.1. The time. “By night.” Primarily he meant natural night, while men slept. At that season the Lord came to him, opening the prophet’s spiritual eyes, and causing to pass before him, like a pictured scene in bright... read more

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