Zechariah 1:12
And the angel of the Lord answered and said, “Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry? This is now the seventieth year.”
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In Context
13And the Lord answered the angel, who had been speaking with me, good words, consoling words.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:21and the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah would be fulfilled, and the land would celebrate her Sabbaths. For during all the days of the desolation, she kept a Sabbath, until the seventy years were completed.
Psalms 74:10But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.
Psalms 102:13As a father is compassionate to his sons, so has the Lord been compassionate to those who fear him.
Isaiah 47:6I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.
Isaiah 64:9Do not be so angry, O Lord, and no longer call to mind our iniquity. Behold, consider that we are all your people.
Jeremiah 25:11And this entire land will be in desolation and in stupor. And all these nations will serve the king of Babylon, for seventy years.
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 →