Zechariah 1:17
Proclaim yet [farther], saying, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, My cities shall again overflow with prosperity: and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and make choice again of Jerusalem.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
18(2:1) And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were four horns.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:6But I have made choice of Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have made choice of David to be over my people Israel,
Nehemiah 11:20And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
Psalms 132:13For the Lord hath made choice of Zion: he hath desired it as a habitation for himself.
Isaiah 40:1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 44:26That fulfilleth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, It shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and their ruins will I raise up.
Isaiah 51:3Yea, the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her ruins; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.
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 →