Zechariah 1:1-6

From: Minor Prophets By: John Gifford Bellett

Zechariah 1:1‑6

Zechariah 1:1-6¹In 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, ²The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. ³Therefore 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. ⁴Be 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. ⁵Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ⁶But 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. (Zechariah 1:1‑6)

This book opens with a kind of preface in which the prophet, before he details his visions, challenges the people, warning them not to treat the Lord’s words by him as their fathers had treated other words of the Lord by other prophets, and which, nevertheless, had been fulfilled against them—had “taken hold of them,” as he speaks (Zech. 1:1-6¹In 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, ²The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. ³Therefore 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. ⁴Be 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. ⁵Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ⁶But 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. (Zechariah 1:1‑6)).

He then begins to record his visions. Haggai had no visions. Zechariah is principally instructed by them. But they both prophesied in the same year, the second of the reign of Darius the Persian.

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• Micah 7:1-10

• Micah 7:11-14

• Micah 7:15-17: the Lord's Answer of Grace

• Micah 7:18-20: Glory to God

• Nahum

• Nahum 1: a Voice for Today

• Nahum 2: Final Judgment

• Nahum 3: the Purposes of God

• Habakkuk 3: Judgment on the Chaldean

• Habakkuk 3:18: Application to Today

• Habakkuk 3:19: Dominion Reserved for Christ

• Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 1:1-7: History and Prophecy

• Zephaniah 1:8-18: Coming Judgment

• Zephaniah2 : A Perfect Steward

• Zephaniah 2:1-15: Perfect Judgment

• Zephaniah 3

• Haggai

• Haggai: Background to the Book

• Haggai 1

• Haggai1:1-15: the Need of Revival

• Haggai 2

• Zechariah

• Zechariah 1:1-6

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