Zechariah 1:16

Therefore Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house will be built within her 1 —this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—and the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem!' 1

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Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

In Context

15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease. 1 When I was only a little angry with them, they made the disaster worse. 1

17Again call out, saying, 1 'Yahweh of hosts says this: My cities will once again overflow with goodness, 1 and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and he will once again choose Jerusalem.'”

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Cross References

Ezra 6:14So the Jewish elders built and prospered under the teaching of Haggaithe prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They completed their buildings according to the decree of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of Persia.

Isaiah 12:1On that day you will say, 1 “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh. For though you were angry with me, your wrath has turned away, and you have comforted me. 1

Isaiah 44:26I, Yahweh, who confirmed the words of his servant and brings to pass the predictions of his messengers, 1 who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited,' and of the towns of Judah, 'They will be built again, and I will raise up their ruins'; 1

Jeremiah 30:18Yahweh says this, “See, I am about to bring back the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his homes. 1 Then a city will be built on the heap of ruins, and a stronghold will exist again where it used to be. 1

Jeremiah 31:39Then the measuring line will go out again farther, to the hill of Gareb and around Goah.

Ezekiel 37:24David my servant will be king over them. So there will be one shepherd over them all, and they will walk according to my decrees and they will keep my statutes and obey them.

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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