Zechariah 1:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo. ⁸I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse that stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow. Behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. ⁹"What are these, my lord?" I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, "I will show you what they are." ¹⁰Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth." ¹¹And the riders answered the Angel of the LORD who stood among the myrtle trees, "We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil."¹²Then the Angel of the LORD said, "How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?" ¹³So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me. ¹⁴Then the angel who was speaking with me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, ¹⁵but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have increased the calamity.' ¹⁶Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they answered: Zechariah 1:8, Zechariah 1:10, Psalms 68:17, Psalms 103:20, Psalms 103:21, Matthew 13:41, Matthew 13:49, Matthew 24:30, Matthew 24:31, Matthew 25:31, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, Revelation 1:1

We: Zechariah 6:7, Daniel 10:20

is: Zechariah 1:15, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Reciprocal: Job 1:7 - From going Ezekiel 9:11 - I have Zechariah 1:12 - the angel Zechariah 2:3 - and another Zechariah 4:10 - they are Zechariah 6:5 - These

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear." And it was so.

Genesis 1:13
And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.

Genesis 1:17
God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

Genesis 1:20
And God said, "Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky."

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:16
And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they answered the Angel of the Lord, that stood among the myrtle trees, and said,.... That is, the ministering angels, signified by the red horses, speckled, and white, replied to what the Angel of the Lord had said concerning them; or rather agreed to and confirmed his account of them; or else gave up the account of their tour through the earth, with their observations upon the state of it:

We have walked to and fro through the earth; according to their mission and commission:

and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest; was free from wars, as it was in the reign of Darius; though the people of the Jews were infested with enemies, who gave them trouble, and hindered all they could the rebuilding of the temple; wherefore it follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sitteth still and is at rest - At rest, as the word seems to express, from its accustomed state of tumult and war. Wars, although soon to break out again, were in the second year of Darius for the time suspended. The rest, in which the world was, suggests the contrast of the yet continuing unrest allotted to the people of God. Such rest had been promised to Israel, on its return from the captivity, but had not yet been fulfilled. Through the hostility of the Samaritans the building of the temple had been hindered and was just recommenced; the wall of Jerusalem was yet broken down Nehemiah 1:3; its fire-burned gates not restored; itself was a waste Nehemiah 2:3; its houses unbuilt Nehemiah 7:4. This gives occasion to the intercession “of the Angel of the Lord.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 1:11. All the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. — There is general peace through the Persian empire, and other states connected with Judea; but the Jews are still in affliction; their city is not yet restored, nor their temple built.