the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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THE MESSAGE
Zechariah 6:2
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The first chariot had chestnut horses, the second chariot black horses,
In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
In the first charet were red horses, and in the second charet, blacke horses.
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,
Red horses pulled the first chariot. Black horses pulled the second chariot.
The first chariot had red horses (war, bloodshed), the second chariot had black horses (famine, death),
In the first charet were red horses, and in the second charet blacke horses,
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
The first chariot was pulled by red horses, and the second by black horses;
The first chariot had red horses; the second chariot, black horses;
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
Red horses were pulling the first chariot. Black horses were pulling the second chariot.
In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black horses,
With the first chariot there were red horses, and with the second chariot there were black horses.
With the first chariot were red horses, and with the second chariot black horses,
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses;
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
In the first charret were red horses, in ye seconde charret were blacke horses,
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
In the firste foure horsid carte weren reed horsis, and in the secounde foure horsid carte weren blac horsis;
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
In the first chariot [were] red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses,
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,
The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black horses,
The first war-wagon had red horses. The second war-wagon had black horses.
The first chariot had red horses, the second chariot black horses,
In the first chariot, were red horses, - and, in the second chariot, black horses;
In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses.
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
In the first chariot [are] red horses, and in the second chariot brown horses,
In the first charet were reade horse, In the secode charet were blacke horse,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
red: Zechariah 1:8, Revelation 6:2-5, Revelation 12:3, Revelation 17:3
black: Zechariah 6:6, Revelation 6:5, Revelation 6:6
Reciprocal: Nahum 2:3 - made Revelation 6:4 - horse
Cross-References
When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
When the human race began to increase, with more and more daughters being born, the sons of God noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful. They looked them over and picked out wives for themselves.
Then God said, "I'm not going to breathe life into men and women endlessly. Eventually they're going to die; from now on they can expect a life span of 120 years."
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.
But Noah was different. God liked what he saw in Noah.
God said to Noah, "It's all over. It's the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I'm making a clean sweep.
"Build yourself a ship from teakwood. Make rooms in it. Coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it 450 feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof for it and put in a window eighteen inches from the top; put in a door on the side of the ship; and make three decks, lower, middle, and upper.
Noah did everything God commanded him to do.
Rebekah spoke to Isaac, "I'm sick to death of these Hittite women. If Jacob also marries a native Hittite woman, why live?"
You are children of God , your God, so don't mutilate your bodies or shave your heads in funeral rites for the dead. You only are a people holy to God , your God; God chose you out of all the people on Earth as his cherished personal treasure.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In the first chariot [were] red horses,.... If these are to be understood of the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the Gospel, they may be compared to "horses", for bearing the name of Christ, and drawing the chariot of the Gospel; for their strength to labour in the word and doctrine; for their courage in the cause of Christ; and for their swiftness in doing his work; and to "red" ones, for their flaming zeal for the honour of the Redeemer, and their bloody sufferings for his sake: and if of angels, they may be compared to "horses", because strong and swift to do the will of God; and to "red" ones, because they are the executioners of his wrath and vengeance on wicked men: but if by "the chariots" are meant the monarchies, then by these "red horses" must be designed the Babylonians and Chaldeans, so called because their soldiers were clothed in red, and their chariots were like flaming torches; and they were sanguinary, cruel, and bloody in their tempers, and in their actions to the Jews; and were signified by Nebuchadnezzar's head of gold in his image; see Nahum 2:3:
and in the second chariot black horses; which, applied to the apostles and ministers of the Gospel, may denote their mean and abject appearance outwardly, and their knowledge in the mysteries of grace, which are dark and obscure to others; and, if understood of angels, is applicable to them, when messengers of ill tidings, or executioners of judgment: but if the monarchies are meant, which seems best, the Medes and Persians are intended; and their "black" colour is expressive of the sorrowful estate of the Jews under them, especially in the time of Haman, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe: black horses were reckoned strong, well made, and fit for labour; and the Ethiopians and Moors chose to have their horses they used in war all of this colour, to strike the greater horror and terror into their enemies; and to see black horses in a dream was accounted a bad omen s. The Medes and Persians were a strong and warlike people, and were very terrible to their enemies, under Cyrus; and very troublesome and distressing to the Jews, under Cambyses and Ahasuerus.
s Vid. Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 7. col. 106, 107.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The symbol is different from that in the first vision. There Zechariah 1:8, they were horses only, with their riders, to go to and fro to enquire; here they are war-chariots with their horses, to execute God’s judgments, each in their turn. In the first vision also, there is not the characteristic fourfold division, which reminds of the four world-empires of Daniel Daniel 2:0; after which, in both prophets, is the mention of the kingdom of Christ. Even if the grisled horses be the same as the speckled of the first vision, the black horses are wanting there, as well as the succession, in which they go forth. The only resemblance is, that there are horses of divers colors, two of which, red and white, are the same. The symbol of the fourth empire, grizzled, strong, remarkably corresponds with the strength and mingled character of the fourth empire in Daniel.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 6:2. In the first chariot were red horses] The empire of the Chaldeans, which overthrew the empire of the Assyrians.
The second chariot black horses — The empire of the Persians founded by Cyrus, which destroyed the empire of the Chaldeans.
