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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Zechariah 1</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//zechariah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/zechariah/">Zechariah</a> > Zechariah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../haggai/2.htm" title="Haggai 2">◄</a> Zechariah 1 <a href="../zechariah/2.htm" title="Zechariah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/zechariah/1.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/zechariah/1.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/zechariah/1.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/zechariah/1.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/zechariah/1.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/zechariah/1.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/zechariah/1.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/3.htm#11">Jeremiah 3:11–25</a>; <a href ="../hosea/14.htm">Hosea 14:1–3</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying: <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“The LORD was very angry with your fathers. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’ <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ <p class="reg"> But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Vision of the Horses<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“What are these, my lord?” I asked. <p class="reg"> And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span>’ <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’ <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Vision of the Horns and the Craftsmen<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then I looked up and saw four horns. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” <p class="reg"> And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“What are these coming to do?” I asked. <p class="reg"> And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Shebat</i><span class="thin"> </span> is the eleventh month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of January and February.<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>they have overdone the punishment</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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