1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

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Nehemiah 12:4, Nehemiah 12:4, Luke 11:51, Ezra 4:24, Ezra 5:1

2"The Lord was very displeased with your fathers.

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Jeremiah 44:6, Jeremiah 44:6, Psalms 79:5, Psalms 79:6, Lamentations 5:7

3Therefore tell them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Return to me,' says the Lord of hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord of hosts.

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Malachi 3:7, Malachi 3:7, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 3:22, Joel 2:12

4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the Lord.

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Psalms 78:8, Psalms 78:8, Ezekiel 33:11, Psalms 106:6, Psalms 106:7

5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Job 14:10, Job 14:12

6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did not they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"

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Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:17, Ezekiel 12:25, Ezekiel 12:28, Deuteronomy 28:15

7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

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Zechariah 1:1, Zechariah 1:1

8"I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.

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Revelation 6:4, Revelation 6:4, Isaiah 41:19, Zechariah 13:7, Revelation 2:1

9Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."

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Zechariah 4:4, Zechariah 4:5, Zechariah 4:4, Zechariah 4:5, Zechariah 1:19

10The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones the Lord has sent to go back and forth through the earth."

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Zechariah 1:11, Zechariah 1:11, Zechariah 6:5, Zechariah 6:8, Zechariah 6:5

11They reported to the angel of the Lord who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."

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Zechariah 1:10, Zechariah 1:10, Zechariah 1:8, Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 103:20

12Then the angel of the Lord replied, "O Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

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Daniel 9:2, Psalms 102:13, Zechariah 7:5, Jeremiah 29:10, Daniel 9:2

13The Lord answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

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Jeremiah 29:10, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Jeremiah 29:10, Isaiah 40:1

14So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

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Joel 2:18, Joel 2:18, Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:17, Isaiah 40:1

15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but only a little angry, but they added to the calamity."

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Ezekiel 25:12, Ezekiel 25:17, Ezekiel 25:12, Ezekiel 25:17, Jeremiah 51:24

16Therefore thus says the Lord: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the Lord of hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'

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Zechariah 8:3, Zechariah 8:3, Zechariah 2:10, Zechariah 2:11, Ezra 6:14

17"Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"

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Isaiah 51:3, Isaiah 51:3, Zechariah 2:12, Zechariah 2:12, Isaiah 14:1

18I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.

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Joshua 5:13, Joshua 5:13, 2 Kings 24:1, 2 Kings 24:20, Zechariah 5:9

19I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

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Ezra 4:4, Zechariah 2:2, Zechariah 1:9, Ezra 4:1, Zechariah 8:14

20The Lord showed me four craftsmen.

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Zechariah 10:3, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 10:3, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 9:12

21Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

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Psalms 75:10, Psalms 75:10, Lamentations 2:17, Zechariah 1:19, Psalms 75:4