Zechariah 1:1-6
International Standard Version
A Call to Return
1 In the eighth month of the second year[a] of the reign of[b] Darius, this message from the Lord came to Berechiah’s son Zechariah,[c] the grandson of Iddo the prophet: 2 “The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. 3 So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: “Return to me,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, “and I will return to you.[d] 4 Don’t be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed: ‘This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: “It’s time to turn from your evil lifestyles[e] and from your evil actions,” ‘but they would neither listen nor pay attention to me,’” declares the Lord.’ 5 “Your ancestors—where are they? And the prophets—do they live forever? 6 But my words and my statutes that I gave as commands to my servants the prophets—did they not overwhelm your ancestors? And they returned to me:[f] ‘The Lord of the Heavenly Armies acted toward us just as he planned to do—in keeping with our lifestyles[g] and in keeping with our actions.’”
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- Zechariah 1:1 I.e. sometime from mid-October to mid-November 520 BC
- Zechariah 1:1 The Heb. lacks the reign of
- Zechariah 1:1 The Heb. name Zechariah means the Lord remembers
- Zechariah 1:3 Lit. you,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies
- Zechariah 1:4 Lit. paths
- Zechariah 1:6 The Heb. lacks to me
- Zechariah 1:6 Lit. paths
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