Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
The word of the Lord of hosts came again to Zechariah. The prophecy to which the verse belongs was given in 520 and 518 B.C., when Zechariah was a contemporary of Haggai during the restoration. It belongs to the first eight chapters, given when Zechariah prophesied together with Haggai in the time of the reformation under Zerubbabel to encourage the rebuilding of the temple and the restoration of Jerusalem. The name Zechariah means Jehovah hath remembered.
The prophecy consists chiefly of visions offering motives for confidence and earnest effort. It sets forth by figures and symbols the nations and God's power to save. The verse concerns that reformation among God's people and the future reformations typified by it. The restoration movement it belongs to is presented as a type of the last reformation.
The verse introduces God's announcement of the great things He desired to do for Jerusalem on condition of the people's obedience. It begins a great message of hope after affliction and captivity, declaring that the Lord had returned to Zion to dwell again in the midst of Jerusalem. Blessing would rise as high as affliction had been deep. He turned to act for His people because they had repented of the sins for which He had given them into the hands of the heathen to be punished, and because the heathen had gone beyond humbling them by captivity to afflict them cruelly while persisting unafraid in wickedness, as shown when He punished the king of Babylon who kept living in every kind of sin after seeing God's punishment of the Jews.
The word of the Lord of hosts came again to Zechariah. The prophecy to which the verse belongs was given in 520 and 518 B.C., when Zechariah was a contemporary of Haggai during the restoration. It belongs to the first eight chapters, given when Zechariah prophesied together with Haggai in the time of the reformation under Zerubbabel to encourage the rebuilding of the temple and the restoration of Jerusalem. The name Zechariah means Jehovah hath remembered.
The prophecy consists chiefly of visions offering motives for confidence and earnest effort. It sets forth by figures and symbols the nations and God's power to save. The verse concerns that reformation among God's people and the future reformations typified by it. The restoration movement it belongs to is presented as a type of the last reformation.
The verse introduces God's announcement of the great things He desired to do for Jerusalem on condition of the people's obedience. It begins a great message of hope after affliction and captivity, declaring that the Lord had returned to Zion to dwell again in the midst of Jerusalem. Blessing would rise as high as affliction had been deep. He turned to act for His people because they had repented of the sins for which He had given them into the hands of the heathen to be punished, and because the heathen had gone beyond humbling them by captivity to afflict them cruelly while persisting unafraid in wickedness, as shown when He punished the king of Babylon who kept living in every kind of sin after seeing God's punishment of the Jews.