Zechariah 1:13
And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.
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In The King James Version
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
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Cross References
Isaiah 40:1Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
Jeremiah 30:10So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.
Amos 9:11In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
Zechariah 1:9Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.
Zechariah 2:4\1:21\Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.
Zechariah 8:2These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:8-18
The Vision of the Horse and Myrtles; Intercession for Jerusalem. ( b. c. 520.) 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, 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. 9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And… Read the whole commentary →