Zechariah 1:10

New King James Version

And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.”

Hebrew Names Version
The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the eretz."

King James Version (1611)
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said, These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walke to and fro through the earth.

King James Version
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

English Standard Version
So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.'

New American Standard Bible
And the man who was standing among the myrtle trees responded and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth."

New Century Version
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the Lord sent through all the earth."

Amplified Bible
And the Man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth and patrol it."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the man that stood among the mirre trees, answered, and sayd, These are they whome the Lord hath sent to go through the world.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth."

Legacy Standard Bible
And the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those whom Yahweh has sent to patrol the earth."

Berean Standard Bible
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth."

Contemporary English Version
Right away, the man standing among the myrtle trees said, "These are the ones the Lord has sent to find out what's happening on earth."

Complete Jewish Bible
The man standing among the myrtles said, "These are those whom Adonai has sent to wander throughout the earth."

Darby Translation
And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the man standing among the myrtle bushes said, "The Lord sent these horses to go here and there on earth."

George Lamsa Translation
And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said to me, These are they whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

Good News Translation
The Lord sent them to go and inspect the earth."

Lexham English Bible
And the man standing between the myrtle shrubs answered and said, "These are those whom Yahweh has sent to patrol the earth."

Literal Translation
And the Man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are those whom Jehovah has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

American Standard Version
And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

Bible in Basic English
And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the man that stoode among the myrre trees aunswered, and said: These are they whom the Lorde hath sent to go thorowe the world.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the man that stood between the mountains answered, and said to me, These are they whom the Lord has sent forth to go round the earth.

English Revised Version
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the man that stood bitwix places where mirtis wexen, answeride, and seide, These it ben, whiche the Lord sente, that thei walke thorouy erthe.

Update Bible Version
And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are those whom Yahweh has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These [are they] whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

New English Translation
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, "These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk about on the earth."

New Living Translation
The rider standing among the myrtle trees then explained, "They are the ones the Lord has sent out to patrol the earth."

New Life Bible
So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees said, "These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to travel all over the earth to keep watch."

New Revised Standard
So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, "They are those whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the man who was standing among the myrtle-trees responded, and said, - These, are they whom Yahweh, hath sent, to go to and fro through the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.

Revised Standard Version
So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, 'These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.'

Young's Literal Translation
And the one who is standing between the myrtles doth answer and say, `These [are] they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk up and down in the land.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the man that stode amoge the Myrte trees, answered & sayde: These are they, whom the LORDE hath sent to go thorow the worlde.

THE MESSAGE
Then the rider in the birch grove spoke up, "These are the riders that God sent to check things out on earth."

Contextual Overview

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, a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white. ⁹ Then I said, "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, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth." ¹¹ So 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 is resting quietly." ¹² Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, "O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years?" ¹³ And the LORD answered the angel who talked to me, with good and comforting words. ¹⁴ So the angel who spoke with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I am zealous for Jerusalem And for Zion with great zeal. ¹⁵ I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; For I was a little angry, And they helped--but with evil intent." ¹⁶ "Therefore thus says the LORD: "I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of hosts, "And a surveyor's line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the man: Zechariah 1:8, Zechariah 1:11, Zechariah 13:7, Genesis 32:24-31, Hosea 12:3-5

These: Zechariah 1:11, Zechariah 4:10, Zechariah 6:5-8, Job 2:1, Job 2:2, Psalms 103:20, Psalms 103:21, Ezekiel 1:5-14, Hebrews 1:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:19 - all the host 2 Chronicles 18:18 - all the host Job 1:7 - From going Ezekiel 9:11 - I have Zechariah 1:12 - the angel Zechariah 2:3 - and another Zechariah 6:7 - the bay Luke 9:10 - the apostles

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

Psalms 104:31
May the glory of the LORD endure forever; May the LORD rejoice in His works.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said,.... And so prevented the angel from giving the account he was about to give; and who was more capable of it, and which to do was great condescension in him, and was doing the prophet a singular honour:

these [are they] whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth; which is a description of the angels, the ministering spirits sent forth by God to take their tour throughout the earth; not to do mischief, as Satan does; but to do good to kingdoms, nations, and men in general, and to the heirs of salvation in particular; for which they are commissioned and empowered of God; see Hebrews 1:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the man answered - To the question addressed to the attendant-angel. He himself took the word.

These are they whom the Lord sent to walk up and down - Satan says of himself that he came “from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it” Job 2:2. As he for evil, so these for good. Their office was not a specific or passing duty, as when God sent His angels with some special commission, such as those recorded in Holy Scripture. It was a continuous conversation with the affairs of people, a minute course of visiting, inspecting our human deeds and ways, a part of the “wonderful order” , in which God has “ordained and constituted the services of angels and men.” Nor is it said that the angels were limited, each to his own special province, as we learn through Daniel, that certain great angels, princes among them, had the charge of empires or nations, even of the pagan . These angels had apparently only the office of inspecting and reporting to angels of a higher order, themselves a subordinate order in the heavenly Hierarchy. Nor are they spoken of, as executing any judgments of God, or as pacifying the earth; they may have been so employed; but they are only said to have reported the state in which they found it.

These answered the unexpressed inquiry of the angel of the Lord, as he had answered the unuttered question of the angel, attendant on Zechariah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 1:10. The man that stood among the myrtle trees — The angel of the Covenant, as above, Zechariah 1:11.

Whom the Lord hath sent — Who are constituted guardians of the land.