Zechariah 1:14

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

the angel: Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:13, Zechariah 2:3, Zechariah 2:4, Zechariah 4:1

Cry: Zechariah 1:17, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:6

I am: Zechariah 8:2, Zechariah 8:3, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 38:22, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 59:17, Isaiah 63:15, Hosea 11:8, Joel 2:18, Nahum 1:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:27 - lest their 2 Kings 19:31 - the zeal Psalms 125:1 - be as mount Psalms 129:5 - be confounded Isaiah 37:32 - the zeal Jeremiah 9:7 - shall Jeremiah 30:16 - General Ezekiel 38:19 - in my Ezekiel 39:25 - and will Daniel 9:22 - he informed Zephaniah 3:15 - hath taken Zechariah 5:5 - the angel Revelation 6:16 - and from

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Genesis 1:3
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

Genesis 1:4
And seeing that the light was good, God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters."

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.

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 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

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.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the angel that communed with me,.... Having an order from the other Angel, or the Lord of hosts:

said unto me, Cry thou; proclaim, publish, declare in the hearing of the people, for their comfort and encouragement. The Targum renders it, "prophesy":

saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy; which is expressive of his conjugal affection for his church and people, his zeal for their good, and his indignation at their enemies, and of the vengeance he would execute on them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cry thou - The vision was not for the prophet alone. What he saw and heard, that he was to proclaim to others. The vision, which he now saw alone, was to be the basis and substance of his subsequent preaching Jonah 1:2; Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 40:6, whereby he was to encourage his people to persevere.

I am jealous for Jerusalem - Literally, “I have been,” not now only but in time past even when I did not show it, “and am jealous”, with the tender love which allows not what it loves to be injured . The love of God, until finally shut out, is unchangeable, He pursues the sinner with chastisements and scourges in His love, that he may yet be converted and live . But for God’s love to him and the solicitations of His grace, while yet impenitent and displeasing Him, he could not turn and please Him.

And for Zion - Which especially He had chosen to put His Name there, and there to receive the worship of His people; “the hill which God desired to dwell in” Psalms 68:16, “which He loved” (Psalms 78:68; add Psalms 132:13-14). Dionysius: “With great and special love have I loved the people of the Jews and what pertained to them, and out of that love have I so diligently and severely corrected her excesses, that she may be more careful for the time to come, as a husband corrects most sharply a wife most dear to him, if she be unfaithful. Whence in the book of Maccabees it is written, “It is a token of His great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but are immediately punished. For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fullness of their sins, so dealeth He with us; lest, being come to the height of sin, afterward He should take vengeance of us. And therefore He never withdraweth His mercy from us, and though He punisheth with adversity, yet doth He never forsake His people” (2 Macc. 6:13-16).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 1:14. I am jealous for Jerusalem — I have for them a strong affection; and indignation against their enemies.