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6 Yet surely aMy words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers? “So they returned and said:
b‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”  

Vision of the Horses

7 On 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:
8 I saw by night, and behold, aa man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were bhorses: red, sorrel, and white.  
9 Then I said, a“My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.”  
10 And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, a“These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth.”  
11 aSo they answered the Angel of the Lord, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is1 resting quietly.”  

The Lord Will Comfort Zion

12 Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, ahow long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry bthese seventy years?”  
13 And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, with agood and comforting words.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Zechariah 1:8

by night—The Jews begin their day with sunset; therefore the night which preceded the twenty-fourth day of the month is meant (Zechariah 1:7).

a man—Jehovah, the second person of the Trinity, manifested in man's form, an earnest of the incarnation; called the "angel of Jehovah" (Zechariah 1:11-12), "Jehovah the angel of the covenant" (Malachi 3:1; compare Genesis 16:7 with Zechariah 1:13; Genesis 22:11 with Zechariah 1:12; Exodus 3:2 with Zechariah 1:4). Being at once divine and human, He must be God and man in one person.

riding—implying swiftness in executing God's will in His providence; hastening to help His people.

red horse—the color that represents bloodshed: implying vengeance to be inflicted on the foes of Israel (compare II Kings 3:22; Isaiah 63:1-2; Revelation 6:4); also fiery zeal.

among the myrtle trees—symbol of the Jewish Church: not a stately cedar, but a lowly, though fragrant, myrtle. It was its depressed state that caused the Jews to despond; this vision is designed to cheer them with better hopes. The uncreated angel of Jehovah's presence standing (as His abiding place, Psalms 132:14) among them, is a guarantee for her safety, lowly though she now be.

in the bottom—in a low place or bottom of a river; alluding to Babylon near the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, the scene of Judah's captivity. The myrtle delights in low places and the banks of waters [PEMBELLUS]. MAURER translates, from a different root, "in a shady place."

red horses—that is, horsemen mounted on red horses; Zechariah 1:10-11, confirm this view.

speckled . . . white—The "white" implies triumph and victory for Judah; "speckled" (from a root "to intertwine"), a combination of the two colors white and red (bay [MOORE]), implies a state of things mixed, partly prosperous, partly otherwise [HENDERSON]; or, the connection of the wrath (answering to the "red") about to fall on the Jews' foes, and triumph (answering to the "white") to the Jews themselves in God's arrangements for His people [MOORE]. Some angels ("the red horses") exercised offices of vengeance; others ("the white"), those of joy; others ("the speckled"), those of a mixed character (compare Zechariah 6:2-3). God has ministers of every kind for promoting the interests of His Church.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Zechariah 1:8:

Zechariah 1:12
Zechariah 2:1
Zechariah 6:2
Revelation 6:2

 

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