Zechariah 1:2

“I was very angry with your ancestors.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

In Context

1I am Zechariah, a prophet, the son of Berekiah and grandson of Iddo. When Darius had been the emperor of Persia for almost two years, during November of that year, Yahweh gave me this message:

3So tell this to the people: I, the Commander of the armies of angels, say, ‘Return to me, and if you do that, I will help you again.

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Cross References

2 Kings 22:16that this is what Yahweh says: “Listen to this carefully. I am going to cause all the people who live here in Jerusalem to experience a disaster, which is what was written in the scroll that the king has read.

2 Kings 22:19and you repented and humbled yourself when you heard what I said to warn you about what would happen to this city and the people who live here and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you. I said that I would cause this city to be abandoned. It will be a city whose name people will use when they curse someone. But I have heard what you prayed,

2 Chronicles 36:13He would not return to Yahweh, the God that the people of Israel said that they worshiped. Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to solemnly promise using God’s name to be loyal to him. Zedekiah became very stubborn.

Ezra 9:13“You punished us because we were very guilty for having done wicked things. But you have not punished us as much as we deserve to be punished. I say this because you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive.

Psalms 60:1I prayed, “God, you have rejected us Israelis! Because you have been angry with us, you have enabled our enemies to break through our ranks. Please enable us to be strong again!

Jeremiah 32:23Our ancestors came here and conquered this land and started to live in it, but they refused to obey you or to do what you commanded them to do. Because of that, you have caused us to experience all these disasters.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:2-7

Zechariah This prophet was colleague with the prophet Haggai, and a worker together with him in forwarding the building of the second temple ( Ezra v. 1 ); for two are better than one. Christ sent forth his disciples two and two. Zechariah began to prophesy some time after Haggai. But he continued longer, soared higher in visions and revelations, wrote more, and prophesied more particularly concerning Christ, than Haggai had done; so the last shall be first: the last in time sometimes proves first in dignity. He… Read the whole commentary →

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