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Zechariah Chapter 1

Zechariah
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Zechariah

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Zechariah 1 opens with a divine message to the prophet Zechariah, who is told to prophesy against the people of Judah for their idolatry and injustice. The chapter emphasizes God’s judgment and the need for repentance, while also promising restoration and hope for the nation.

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(1) In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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Zechariah 1:7Zechariah 7:1Ezra 4:24Ezra 6:15Haggai 1:1Haggai 1:15Haggai 2:1Haggai 2:10Haggai 2:20Ezra 5:1Matthew 23:35Luke 11:51

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Zechariah 1:7Esther 3:7Haggai 1:1Haggai 2:10II Chronicles 29:17Ezra 6:14

(2) The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
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II Kings 22:16II Kings 22:17II Kings 22:19II Kings 23:26II Chronicles 36:13II Chronicles 36:14II Chronicles 36:15II Chronicles 36:16II Chronicles 36:17II Chronicles 36:18II Chronicles 36:19II Chronicles 36:20

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Zechariah 1:15

(3) Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Deuteronomy 4:30Deuteronomy 4:31Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5Deuteronomy 30:6Deuteronomy 30:7Deuteronomy 30:8Deuteronomy 30:9Deuteronomy 30:10I Kings 8:47

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Ezekiel 33:11Judges 8:10Isaiah 18:7Isaiah 22:14Jeremiah 46:10Haggai 2:9

(4) Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
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II Chronicles 29:6II Chronicles 29:7II Chronicles 29:8II Chronicles 29:9II Chronicles 29:10II Chronicles 30:7II Chronicles 34:21Ezra 9:7Nehemiah 9:16Psalms 78:8Psalms 106:6Psalms 106:7

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Zechariah 1:3II Kings 17:13Ezekiel 33:11Zechariah 1:6Zechariah 7:12Judges 9:7

(5) Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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Job 14:10Job 14:11Job 14:12Psalms 90:10Ecclesiastes 1:4Ecclesiastes 9:1Ecclesiastes 9:2Ecclesiastes 9:3Ecclesiastes 12:5Ecclesiastes 12:7Acts 13:36Hebrews 7:23

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20

(6) But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
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Isaiah 55:1Numbers 23:19Numbers 32:23II Chronicles 36:17II Chronicles 36:18II Chronicles 36:19II Chronicles 36:20II Chronicles 36:21Isaiah 44:26Jeremiah 26:15Jeremiah 44:28Ezekiel 12:25

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II Kings 17:13Zechariah 1:4Jeremiah 7:3Jeremiah 32:19Zechariah 8:23Zechariah 8:14

(7) 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 prophet, saying,
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Esther 3:7Zechariah 1:1Haggai 1:1Haggai 2:10Exodus 12:18Genesis 8:14

(8) 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.
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Genesis 20:3I Kings 3:5Job 4:13Daniel 2:19Daniel 7:2Daniel 7:13Zechariah 13:7Joshua 5:13Psalms 45:3Psalms 45:4Isaiah 63:1Isaiah 63:2

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Esther 1:6Zechariah 6:2Leviticus 23:40II Chronicles 2:8Nahum 2:3Genesis 49:12

(9) 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.
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Zechariah 1:19Zechariah 4:4Zechariah 4:11Zechariah 6:4Daniel 7:16Daniel 8:15Revelation 7:13Revelation 7:14Zechariah 2:3Zechariah 4:5Zechariah 5:5Zechariah 6:5

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Zechariah 2:3II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(10) And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
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Zechariah 1:8Zechariah 1:11Zechariah 13:7Genesis 32:24Genesis 32:25Genesis 32:26Genesis 32:27Genesis 32:28Genesis 32:29Genesis 32:30Genesis 32:31Hosea 12:3

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Zechariah 6:7Leviticus 23:40II Chronicles 2:8Zechariah 1:11

(11) And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
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Zechariah 1:8Zechariah 1:10Psalms 68:17Psalms 103:20Psalms 103:21Matthew 13:41Matthew 13:49Matthew 24:30Matthew 24:31Matthew 25:31II Thessalonians 1:7Revelation 1:1

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Zechariah 6:7Leviticus 23:40II Chronicles 2:8Zechariah 1:10II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(12) Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
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Zechariah 1:8Zechariah 1:10Zechariah 1:11Exodus 23:20Exodus 23:21Exodus 23:22Exodus 23:23Isaiah 63:9Hebrews 7:25Psalms 74:10Psalms 69:5Psalms 102:13

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II Kings 8:12Psalms 13:1II Chronicles 36:21Exodus 15:26Judges 13:16I Samuel 1:11

(13) And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
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Zechariah 1:14Zechariah 1:15Zechariah 1:16Zechariah 2:4Zechariah 2:5Zechariah 2:6Zechariah 2:7Zechariah 2:8Zechariah 2:9Zechariah 2:10Zechariah 2:11Zechariah 2:12

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Zechariah 2:3II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(14) So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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Zechariah 1:9Zechariah 1:13Zechariah 2:3Zechariah 2:4Zechariah 4:1Zechariah 1:17Isaiah 40:1Isaiah 40:6Zechariah 8:2Zechariah 8:3Isaiah 9:7Isaiah 38:22

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Zechariah 8:2Numbers 5:14II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15Zechariah 1:17Isaiah 18:7

(15) And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
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Zechariah 1:2Zechariah 1:11Isaiah 47:7Isaiah 47:8Isaiah 47:9Jeremiah 48:11Jeremiah 48:12Jeremiah 48:13Amos 6:1Revelation 18:7Revelation 18:8Isaiah 54:8

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Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Mark 10:14Daniel 6:14Zechariah 1:2Matthew 21:15

(16) Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
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Zechariah 2:10Zechariah 2:11Zechariah 8:3Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 54:8Isaiah 54:9Isaiah 54:10Jeremiah 31:22Jeremiah 31:23Jeremiah 31:24Jeremiah 31:25Jeremiah 33:10

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Isaiah 28:10Isaiah 28:13Zechariah 8:9Zechariah 1:3

(17) Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
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Nehemiah 11:3Nehemiah 11:20Psalms 69:35Isaiah 44:26Isaiah 61:4Isaiah 61:5Isaiah 61:6Jeremiah 31:23Jeremiah 31:24Jeremiah 32:43Jeremiah 32:44Jeremiah 33:13

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Isaiah 51:3Zechariah 1:14Isaiah 18:7Zechariah 1:3

(18) Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
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Zechariah 2:1Zechariah 5:1Zechariah 5:5Zechariah 5:9Joshua 5:13Daniel 8:3II Kings 15:29II Kings 17:1II Kings 17:2II Kings 17:3II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:5

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Ezekiel 48:16Exodus 25:26Exodus 27:2Exodus 37:13Exodus 38:2Ezekiel 1:10

(19) And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
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Zechariah 1:9Zechariah 1:21Zechariah 2:2Zechariah 4:11Zechariah 4:12Zechariah 4:13Zechariah 4:14Revelation 7:13Revelation 7:14Zechariah 8:14Ezra 4:1Ezra 4:4

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Zechariah 2:3Zechariah 1:21II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(21) Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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Zechariah 1:19Daniel 12:7Psalms 75:4Psalms 75:5Lamentations 2:17

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Daniel 7:8Daniel 8:3Exodus 27:2Exodus 38:2Deuteronomy 33:17Psalms 75:10

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