These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Zechariah 1
Tanakh 21 verses
- 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the of unto the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the , saying:
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The hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
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Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith of hosts: Return unto Me, saith of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith of hosts.
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Malachi 3:7 Isaiah 31:6 Jeremiah 12:15 Jeremiah 3:22 Deuteronomy 30:2-10 Jeremiah 35:15 Nehemiah 9:28 Lamentations 3:39-41 Hosea 14:4 Jeremiah 3:12-14 2 Chronicles 15:4 Micah 7:19-20 Luke 15:18-22 Jeremiah 25:5 Ezekiel 33:11 Hosea 14:1 Jeremiah 4:1 Joel 2:12 2 Chronicles 30:6-9 Hosea 6:1 1 Kings 8:47-48 Deuteronomy 4:30-31 Jeremiah 29:12-14 Isaiah 55:6-7 James 4:8-10 Jeremiah 31:18-20 -
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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus saith of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not , nor attend unto Me, saith .
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Psalm 78:8 Jeremiah 35:15 Psalm 106:6-7 Ezekiel 33:11 Isaiah 1:16-19 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Zechariah 1:3 2 Chronicles 34:21 Ezra 9:7 Jeremiah 18:11 Jeremiah 17:19-23 Jeremiah 25:3-7 Amos 5:13-15 Ezekiel 18:14-17 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Amos 5:24 Matthew 3:8-10 2 Chronicles 24:19-22 Ezekiel 3:7-9 Isaiah 31:6 Micah 2:6 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 2 Chronicles 29:6-10 Jeremiah 13:9-10 Acts 7:51-52 Nehemiah 9:16 Jeremiah 6:16-17 Jeremiah 11:6-8 Nehemiah 9:30 1 Peter 1:18 Jeremiah 44:16 Jeremiah 26:5 Jeremiah 13:16-18 Isaiah 30:9-11 Zechariah 7:11-13 Jeremiah 7:3-7 Acts 26:20 Jeremiah 44:4-5 Jeremiah 36:2-10 Nehemiah 9:26 2 Chronicles 30:7 Acts 3:19 Jeremiah 36:23-24 Jeremiah 3:12 Hosea 14:1 - 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? so that they turned and said: Like as of hosts purposed to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath He dealt with us.’
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Lamentations 2:17 Amos 9:10 Deuteronomy 28:15 Jeremiah 44:28 Matthew 24:35 Jeremiah 23:20 Deuteronomy 28:20 Lamentations 1:18 Isaiah 3:8-11 Ezekiel 37:11 Lamentations 4:11-12 Isaiah 55:1 Hosea 2:6-11 Numbers 32:23 2 Chronicles 36:17-21 Jeremiah 12:16-17 Jeremiah 26:15 Hosea 9:15 Jeremiah 18:8-11 Malachi 3:18 Jeremiah 4:4 Numbers 33:56 1 Thessalonians 5:4 Deuteronomy 28:45 Ezekiel 12:25-28 Ezekiel 20:43 Isaiah 44:26 Numbers 23:19 Daniel 9:11-12 Job 6:29 -
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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the of unto the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the , saying—
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- 8 I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.
- 9 Then said I: ‘O my lord, what are these?’ And the that spoke with me said unto me: ‘I will show thee what these are.’
- 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: ‘These are they whom hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.’
- 11 And they answered the of that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said: ‘We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.’
- 12 Then the of spoke and said: ‘O of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have compassion on and on the cities of , against which Thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
- 13 And answered the that spoke with me with good words, even comforting words—
- 14 so the that spoke with me said unto me: ‘Proclaim thou, saying: Thus saith of hosts: I am jealous for and for with a great jealousy;
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and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped for evil.
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Isaiah 54:8 Jeremiah 51:24 Zechariah 1:2 Isaiah 47:6-9 Ezekiel 25:12-17 Isaiah 10:5-7 Jeremiah 48:11-13 Zechariah 1:11 Psalm 69:26 Jeremiah 51:34-35 Ezekiel 25:3-9 Revelation 18:7-8 Amos 6:1 Psalm 137:7 Obadiah 1:10-16 Psalm 123:4 Ezekiel 29:6-7 Ezekiel 36:4-5 Psalm 83:2-5 Ezekiel 26:2 Amos 1:3-13 Hebrews 12:6-7 -
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Therefore thus saith : I return to with compassions: My house shall be built in it, saith of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over .
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Again, proclaim, saying: Thus saith of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; and shall yet comfort , and shall yet choose .’
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Isaiah 51:3 Zechariah 2:12 2 Chronicles 6:6 Nehemiah 11:20 Isaiah 44:26 Isaiah 14:1 Ephesians 1:4 Isaiah 61:4-6 Ezekiel 36:10-11 Psalm 132:13-14 Isaiah 40:1-2 Isaiah 54:8 Obadiah 1:20 Isaiah 66:13 Isaiah 49:13 Psalm 69:35 Jeremiah 31:13 Isaiah 51:12 Jeremiah 31:23-24 Isaiah 52:9 Jeremiah 32:43-44 Ezekiel 36:33 Romans 11:28-29 Isaiah 41:8-9 Zephaniah 3:15-17 Jeremiah 33:13 Nehemiah 11:3 Zechariah 3:2 Amos 9:14 - 18 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
- 19 And I said unto the that spoke with me: ‘What are these?’ And he said unto me: ‘These are the horns which have scattered , , and .’
- 20 And showed me four craftsmen.
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Then said I: ‘What come these to do?’ And he spoke, saying: ‘These—the horns which scattered , so that no man did lift up his head—these then are come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of to scatter it.’
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