Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+008   Zechariah 8 (ESV) 9 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+007   Zechariah 7 (ESV) 8 And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, 9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+006   Zechariah 6 (ESV) A Vision of Four Chariots 1 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze. 2 The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses, 3 the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses—all of them strong. 4 Then I…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+005   Zechariah 5 (ESV) A Vision of a Flying Scroll 1 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” 3 Then he said to me, “This is the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+004   Zechariah 4 (ESV) A Vision of a Golden Lampstand 1 And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep. 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+003   Zechariah 3 (ESV) 1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you!…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+002   Zechariah 2 (ESV) A Vision of a Man with a Measuring Line 1 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! 2 Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+001   ZECHARIAH INTRODUCTION The prophet Zechariah brought his messages to the returned exiles of Judah beginning in the second year of King Darius of Persia (520 BC). The book has two main parts. The first contains two sequences of prophecies, primarily in the form of symbolic vision reports. The second…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Haggai+002   Haggai 2 (ESV) 1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Haggai+001   HAGGAI INTRODUCTION When Cyrus, king of Persia, conquered Babylon in 539 BC, he allowed the exiled Jews to return home and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. One group returned the next year, completing and dedicating the temple foundation within two more years. But they were stopped by suspicious and…