“ The LORD hath been sorea displeased with your fathers. ”
Wroth was the Lord against your fathers with wrath - o , that is, a wrath which was indeed such, whose greatness he does not further express, but leaves to their memories to supply. Cyril: “Sees...
The LORD hath been (c) sore displeased with your fathers. (c) He speaks this to make them afraid of God's judgments, so that they should not provoke him as their fathers had done, whom he so grievou...
This rebuke (see above, p. 575) seems inconsistent with a date five weeks or more after work had been begun at the Temple and at least ten days after the prophecy in Haggai 2:1-9 . The clumsy handiw...
sore displeased. Hebrew displeased with. displeasure. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6. See note on Genesis 26:28 . your fathers. Compare verses: Zechariah 1:4 ; Zechariah 1:6 ,
Angry was Jehovah with anger against your fathers (10) The Prophet here refers to the severity of the punishment with which the Jews had been visited, in order that posterity might know that...
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers - For their ingratitude idolatry, iniquity, and general rebellion.
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. God fulfilled His threats against your fathers; beware, then, lest by disregarding...
Lessons from the Past. The First and Second Visions 1-6. The Prophet's message. He calls the people to repentance. 8-17 . The First Vision: The Divine Messengers ever watching over the affairs o...
(1-6) On the four-and-twentieth day of the sixth mouth of the second year (B.C. 520) of Darius Hystaspis, the re-building of the Temple had been resumed ( Haggai 1:15 ); and in the seventh month, on...
ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET Zechariah 1:1-6 ; Ezra 5:1 ; Ezra 6:14 ZECHARIAH is one of the prophets whose personality as distinguished from their message exerts some degree of fascination on the st...
a Vision of Pardon and Restoration Zechariah 1:1-17 Zechariah does not slur over the sins of the past, but lays stress on the divine forgiveness. His only fear is lest God should call in vain,...
About a month after Haggai's second message, in which he had encouraged the people who were in danger of being disheartened by the memory of the past, Zechariah uttered his first prophetic word. He g...
"The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. (3) Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LO...
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Who lived before and at the time of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and which was manifest by their captivity; all which were occasio...
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Ver. 2. The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers ] Heb. He hath boiled against your fathers with foaming anger, with height of hea...
In the eighth month This month, according to that reckoning which begins the year with the month Abib, or Nisan, Exodus 12:2 , falls in with the latter part of our October, and the beginning of No...
God's Call to Return to Him (vv. 1-6) Zechariah's name means "Jehovah remembers." He was the son of Berechiah ("Jehovah blesses") who was the son of Iddo ("the appointed time"). Israel had long b...
Repentance Urged. B. C. 520. 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came t...
The Lord, the holy, the mighty One, your God, the just Governor of the world, hath been sore displeased; so long provoked, that his displeasure at last enkindled within his breast, and broke out in...
God's Call to the People to Return to Him and Live in Obedience to His Demands - The Offer of a New Beginning ( Zechariah 1:1-6 ). Zechariah is the prophet of the new beginning, but as is always s...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zechariah 1:2 . Sore ] Lit. displeased with displeasure, wrath not common, whose greatness is given as a ground for their return. Zechariah 1:3 . Therefore ] Lit. and thou...
Zechariah 1:1 . Zechariah; that is, the memory of God; a name which might seem prophetic, for the Lord remembered his people while yet in Babylon. He was contemporary with Haggai, and acted in con...
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers A call to repentance The prophet being to carry comfortable tidings to this people, begins with the doctrine of repentance, inviting them n...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-6:15 Part I. A SERIES OF EIGHT VISIONS , AND A SYMBOLICAL ACTION . Zechariah 1:1 § 1. Title of the book, and author. The eighth month . This was called...
A Call to Repentance
2 Chronicles 36:13-20 ; 2 Kings 22:16 ; 2 Kings 22:17 ; 2 Kings 22:19 ; 2 Kings 23:26 ; Acts 7:52 ; Daniel 9:11 ; Daniel 9:12 ; Ezekiel 22:31 ; Ezra 9:13 ; Ezra 9:6 ; Ezra 9:7 ; Jeremiah...
The Man among the Myrtle Trees Zechariah 1:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The visions have to do primarily with God's dealings with His chosen people Israel. They will, however, be full of lessons fo...