Zechariah 1:13

So Yahweh spoke kindly to the angel who had talked to me, saying things that comforted/encouraged him.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

In Context

12Then the angel asked, “Commander of the armies of angels, how long will you continue to not be merciful to Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah? You have been angry with them for 70 years!”

14Then the angel who had been talking with me said to me, “Proclaim this to the people of Jerusalem: The Commander of the armies of angels says that he is very concerned about the people who live on Zion Hill and in the other parts of Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Isaiah 40:1Our God says, “Encourage my people! Encourage them!

Jeremiah 30:10So, you people of Israel who serve me, do not be dismayed/worried now, because some day I will bring you back from distant places; I will bring your descendants back home from the land to which they were exiled. Then you Israeli people will again live peacefully and safely, and there will not be any nation that will cause you to be terrified.

Amos 9:11“The kingdom over which King David ruled has been destroyed, like [MET] a house that collapsed and then became ruins. But some day I will cause it to be a kingdom again. I will cause it to prosper again just like it did previously.

Zechariah 1:9I asked the angel who had been talking to me, “Sir, who are those angels on the horses?” He replied, “I will show you who they are.”

Zechariah 2:4That other angel said to him, “Run and tell that young man that some day there will be very many people and livestock in Jerusalem, with the result that there will be too many to live inside the city walls; many will live outside the walls.

Zechariah 8:2“This is what I, the Commander of the armies of angels, say: ‘I love the people of Jerusalem; I love them very much, and I am very angry with their enemies.’

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 →

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