Ezra 5:1-2

1 Zerubbabel and Jeshua, incited by Haggai and Zechariah, set forward the building of the temple.

3 Tatnai and Shethar-boznai are not able to hinder the Jews.

6 Their letter to Darius against the Jews.

A.M. 3484. B.C. 520. Haggai.These are the same Haggai and Zechariah, whose writings we have among the twelve minor prophets; and, as a great part of them refer to the events here recorded, the reader will find it very profitable to compare them with the history.

Hag 1:1-15

Zechariah.

Zec 1:1-21

the son of Iddo.That is, "the grandson of Iddo;" for Zechariah was the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.

in the name.

Mic 5:4; Hag 1:2-8; Zec 1:3,4; 4:6-10

rose up.

3:2; Hag 1:12-15

Jeshua.

Zec 6:11

Joshua, Josedech. the prophets.

6:14; Hag 2:4-9,20-23; Zec 3:1-4:14; 2Co 1:24

Haggai 1:12-14

Zerubbabel.

14; Ezr 5:2; Isa 55:10,11; Col 1:6; 1Th 1:5,6; 2:13,14

fear.

Ge 22:12; Ps 112:1; Pr 1:7; Ec 12:13; Isa 50:10; Ac 9:31; Heb 12:28

the Lord's.

Jud 2:1; *marg:

Isa 42:19; 44:26; Eze 3:17; Mal 2:7; 3:1; 2Co 5:20

I am.

2:4; 2Ch 15:2; 20:17; 32:8; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:8-10; 41:10; 43:2

Jer 15:20; 20:11; 30:11; Mt 1:23; 18:20; 28:20; Ac 18:9,10; Ro 8:31

2Ti 4:17,22

stirred.

1Ch 5:26; 2Ch 36:22; Ezr 1:1,5; 7:27,28; Ps 110:3; 1Co 12:4-11

2Co 8:16; Heb 13:21

governor of.

1; 2:21

and they.

Ezr 5:2,8; Ne 4:6; 1Co 15:58; Php 2:12,13

Haggai 2:2-15

governor.

1:14; Ezr 1:8; 2:63; Ne 8:9

is left.

Ezr 3:12; Zec 4:9,10

glory.

Eze 7:20; Lu 21:5,6

now.

De 31:23; Jos 1:6,9; 1Ch 22:13; 28:20; Zec 8:9; 1Co 16:13; Eph 6:10

2Ti 2:1

for.

1:13; Ex 3:12; Jud 2:18; 1Sa 16:18; 2Sa 5:10; Mr 16:20; Ac 7:9

2Ti 4:17

to the.

Ex 29:45,46; 33:12-14; 34:8,10

so.

Nu 11:25-29; Ne 9:20,30; Ps 51:11,12; Isa 63:11-14; Zec 4:6

Joh 14:16,17

fear.

Jos 8:1; 2Ch 20:17; Isa 41:10,13; Zec 8:13,15; Mt 28:5; Ac 27:24

Re 1:17

Yet.

21,22; Heb 12:26-28

it is.

Ps 37:10; Isa 10:25; 29:17; Jer 51:33; Heb 10:37

and I.

Isa 34:4; Jer 4:23-26; Eze 38:20; Joe 2:30-32; 3:16; Mt 24:29,30

Mr 13:24-26; Lu 21:25-27; Ac 2:19; Heb 12:26; Re 6:12-17; 8:5-12

Re 11:9; 6:2-17

I will shake.

Eze 21:27; Da 2:44,45; 7:20-25; Joe 3:9-16; Lu 21:10,11

and the.

Ge 3:15; 22:18; 49:10; Zec 9:9,10; Lu 2:10,11,27,46; Ro 15:9-15

Ga 3:8

I will fill.

Ex 40:34,35; 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14; Ps 80:1; Mal 3:1; Lu 19:47; 20:1

Lu 21:38; Joh 1:14; 2:13-17; 7:37-39; 10:23-38; Col 2:9

1Ki 6:20-35; 1Ch 29:14-16; Ps 24:1; 50:10-12; Isa 60:13,17

glory.

Ps 24:7-10; Joh 1:14; 2Co 3:9,10; 1Ti 3:16; Jas 2:1

saith.Whoever compares the description of the temple of Solomon, in the first book of Kings, with the most splendid accounts of the second temple, however adorned with costly stones and other magnificent decorations in after ages, must perceive that the former, being wholly overlaid with pure gold, was incomparably more glorious than the latter in its greatest magnificence; and the Jews themselves allow that the ark of the covenant, fire from heaven, the {Urim} and {Thummim,} the anointing oil, the {Shechinah,} or visible glory, and the spirit of prophecy, which distinguished the former temple, were wanting in this. In nothing, in fact, could the second temple excel the first in glory, except in the personal presence of "the Desire of all nations," He who is "the glory of the Lord," and the true temple, "in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily," and who was the true {Shechinah,} of which that of Solomon's temple was merely a type. And if it be admitted that the presence of the promised Messiah was intended, then it will follow that "Jesus of Nazareth" was He; for the second temple, in which as the "Prince of peace" he preached peace and reconciliation with God, has been utterly destroyed for upwards of seventeen hundred years.

give.

Ps 85:8,9; Isa 9:6,7; 57:18-21; Mic 5:5; Lu 2:14; Joh 14:27

Ac 10:36; Eph 2:14-17; Col 1:19-21

1,20; 1:1,15

Le 10:10,11; De 33:10; Eze 44:23,24; Mal 2:7; Tit 1:9

Ex 29:37; Le 6:27,29; 7:6; Eze 44:19; Mt 23:19

Nu 5:2,3; 9:6-10; 19:11-22

So is this people.

1:4-11; Pr 15:8; 21:4,27; 28:9; Isa 1:11-15; Tit 1:15; Jude 1:23

and that.

Ezr 3:2,3

consider.

18; 1:5,7; Ps 107:43; Isa 5:12; Ho 14:9; Mal 3:8-11; Ro 6:21

1Co 11:31

from before.

Ezr 3:10; 4:24

Zechariah 2

1 God, in the care of Jerusalem, sends to measure it.

6 The redemption of Zion.

10 The promise of God's presence.

lifted.

1:18

a man.

1:16; Eze 40:3,5; 47:4; Re 11:1; 21:15

Whither.

5:10; Joh 16:5

To.

Jer 31:39; Eze 45:6; 48:15-17,30-35; Re 11:1; 21:15-17

the angel.

1:9,13,14,19; 4:1,5; 5:5

and another.

1:8,10,11

young.

Jer 1:6; Da 1:17; 1Ti 4:12

Jerusalem.We learn from Josephus, that Jerusalem actually overflowed with inhabitants, and gradually extended itself beyond its walls, and that Herod Agrippa fortified the new part, called Bezetha.

1:17; 8:4,5; 12:6; 14:10,11; Isa 33:20; 44:26; Jer 30:18,19; 31:24,27

Jer 31:38-40; 33:10-13; Eze 36:10,11; Mic 7:11

a wall.

9:8; Ps 46:7-11; 48:3,12; Isa 4:5; 12:6; 26:1,2; 33:21; 60:18,19

the glory.

Ps 3:3; Isa 60:19; Hag 2:7-9; Lu 2:32; Re 21:10,11,23; 22:3-5

ho.

Ru 4:1; Isa 55:1

and flee.

7; Ge 19:17; Isa 48:20; 52:11,12; Jer 1:14; 3:18; 31:8; 50:8; 51:6

Jer 51:45,50; 2Co 6:16,17; Re 18:4

spread.

De 28:64; Jer 15:4; 31:10; Eze 5:12; 11:16; 12:14,15; 17:21; Am 9:9

Deliver.

Ge 19:17; Nu 16:26,34; Isa 48:20; 52:11; Jer 50:8; 51:6,45; Ac 2:40

Re 18:4

that.

Isa 52:2; Mic 4:10

daughter.The Babylonians were vanquished by the Persians, formerly their servants, under Darius Hystaspes, who took Babylon after a siege of twelve months, demolished its walls, and put 300,000 of the inhabitants to death.

After.

4,5; 1:15,16; Isa 60:7-14

sent.

9,11; Isa 48:15,16; Mal 3:1; Joh 14:23,24,26; 15:21-23; 17:18

1Jo 4:9,10,14

the nations.

2Ki 24:2; Jer 50:17,18; 51:34,35; Eze 25:6,7,12,15; 26:2; 35:5

Joe 3:2-8; Am 1:3-5,9,11,13; Ob 1:10-16; Mic 4:11; 5:6; 7:10

Hab 2:8,17; Zep 2:8

for.

Ge 20:6; Ps 105:13-15; Ac 9:4; 2Th 1:6

the apple.

De 32:10; Ps 17:8; Mt 25:40,45

I will.

Isa 10:32; 11:15; 13:2; 19:16

and they.

Isa 14:2; 33:1,23; Jer 27:7; Eze 39:10; Hab 2:8,17; Zep 2:9

and ye.

8; 4:9; 6:15; Jer 28:9; Joh 13:19; 16:4

and rejoice.

9:9; Ps 47:1-9; 98:1-3; Isa 12:6; 35:10; 40:9; 42:10; 51:11; 52:9,10

Isa 54:1; 61:10; 65:18,19; 66:14; Jer 30:19; 31:12; 33:11

Zep 3:14,15; Php 4:4

lo.

14:5; Ps 40:7; Isa 40:9-11; Mal 3:1

and I.

8:3; Le 26:12; Ps 68:18; Eze 37:27; Zep 3:17; Mt 28:20; Joh 1:14

Joh 14:23; 2Co 6:15,16; Re 2:1; 21:3

many.

8:20-23; Ps 22:27-30; 68:29-31; 72:8-11,17; Isa 2:2-5; 11:9,10

Isa 19:24,25; 42:1-4; 45:14; 49:6,7,22,23; 52:10; 60:3-7; 66:19

Jer 16:19; Mal 1:11; Lu 2:32; Ac 28:28; 1Pe 2:9,10; Re 11:15

in that day.

3:10

my people.

Ex 12:49

thou.

9; Eze 33:33; Joh 17:21,23,25

inherit.

Ex 19:5,6; De 32:9; Ps 82:8; 135:4; Jer 10:16; 51:19

and shall.

1:17; Isa 41:9

Be.

Ps 46:10; Hab 2:20; Zep 1:7; Ro 3:19; 9:20

for.

Ps 68:5; 78:65; Isa 26:20,21; 42:13-15; 51:9; 57:5; Zep 3:8

his holy habitation. Heb. the habitation of his holiness.

De 26:15; 2Ch 30:27; *marg:

Ps 11:4; 68:5; Isa 57:15; 63:15; Jer 25:30

Zechariah 3

1 Under the type of Joshua, the high priest, receiving clean garments,

6 and a covenant of promise,

8 Christ the Branch and Corner Stone is promised.

he.

1:9,13,19; 2:3

Joshua.

8; 6:11; Ezr 5:2; Hag 1:1,12; 2:4

standing.

De 10:8; 18:15; 1Sa 6:20; 2Ch 29:11; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:19

Eze 44:11,15; Lu 21:36

the angel.

Ge 48:16; Ex 3:2-6; 23:20,21; Ho 12:4,5; Mal 3:1; Ac 7:30-38

Satan. that is, an adversary.

Job 1:6-12; 2:1-8; Ps 109:6; *marg:

Lu 22:31; 1Pe 5:8; Re 12:9,10

resist him. Heb. be his adversary.

Ge 3:15

the Lord said.

Ps 109:31; Lu 22:32; Ro 16:20; 1Jo 3:8

The Lord rebuke.

Da 12:1; Mr 1:25; Lu 4:35; 9:42; Jude 1:9; Re 12:9,10

chosen.

1:17; 2:12; 2Ch 6:6; Joh 13:18; Ro 8:33; Re 17:14

a brand.

Am 4:11; Ro 11:4,5; Jude 1:23

2Ch 30:18-20; Ezr 9:15; Isa 64:6; Da 9:18; Mt 22:11-13

Re 7:13,14; 19:8

those.

1,7; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 6:2,3; Lu 1:19; Re 5:11

Take.

Isa 43:25; Eze 36:25; Ga 3:27,28; Php 3:7-9; Re 7:14

I have.

2Sa 12:13; Ps 32:1,2; 51:9; Isa 6:5-7; Joh 1:29; Ro 6:23; Heb 8:12

and I will.

Isa 61:3,10; Lu 15:22; Ro 3:22; 1Co 6:11; 2Co 5:21; Col 3:10

Re 19:7

fair.

6:11; Ex 28:2-4; 29:6; Le 8:6-9; Heb 2:8,9; Re 4:4,10; 5:8-14

the.

1; Ge 22:15,16; 28:13-17; 48:15,16; Ex 23:20,21; Isa 63:9; Ho 12:4

Ac 7:35-38

protested.

Jer 11:7

if thou wilt keep.

Ge 26:5; Le 8:35; 10:3; 1Ki 2:3; 1Ch 23:32; Eze 44:8,15,16; 48:11

1Ti 6:13,14; 2Ti 4:1,2

charge. or, ordinance. judge.

De 17:8-13; 1Sa 2:28-30; Jer 15:19-21; Mal 2:5-7; Mt 19:28

Lu 22:30; 1Co 6:2,3; Re 3:21

I will.

1:8-11; 4:14; 6:5; Lu 20:35,36; Joh 14:2; Heb 12:22,23; Re 5:9-14

places. Heb. walks.

Re 3:4,5

for.

Ps 71:7; Isa 8:18; 20:3; 1Co 4:9-13

wondered at. Heb. of wonder, or sign, as.

Eze 12:11; 24:24

my.

Isa 42:1; 49:3,5; 52:13; 53:11; Eze 34:23,24; 37:24; Php 2:6-8

the Branch.

6:12; Isa 4:2; 11:1; 53:2; Jer 23:5; 33:15; Eze 17:22-24; 34:29

Lu 1:78; *marg:

the stone.

Ps 118:22; Isa 8:14,15; 28:16; Mt 21:42-44; Ac 4:11; Ro 9:33

1Pe 2:4-8

seven.

4:10; 2Ch 16:9; Re 5:6

I will engrave.

Ex 28:11,21,36; Joh 6:27; 2Co 1:22; 3:3; 2Ti 2:19

remove.

13:1; Isa 53:4-12; Jer 31:34; 50:20; Da 9:24-27; Mic 7:18,19

Joh 1:29; Eph 2:16,17; Col 1:20,21; 1Ti 2:5,6; Heb 7:27; 9:25,26

Heb 10:10-18; 1Jo 2:2

In.

2:11

shall.

1Ki 4:25; Isa 36:16; Ho 2:18; Mic 4:4; Joh 1:45-48

Zechariah 4

1 By the golden candlestick is foreshewn the good success of Zerubbabel's foundation;

11 by the two olive trees the two anointed ones.

the angel.

1:9,13,19; 2:3; 3:6,7

waked.

1Ki 19:5-7; Jer 31:26; Da 8:18; 10:8-10; Lu 9:32; 22:45,46

What.

5:2; Jer 1:11-13

a candlestick.

Ex 25:31-38; 37:17-24; 40:24,25; 1Ki 7:49,50; 1Ch 28:15; 2Ch 4:7

2Ch 4:20-22; 13:11; Jer 52:19; Mt 5:14-16; Re 1:12,20; 2:1

a bowl. Heb. her bowl.

1Ki 7:50

seven.

Ex 25:37; Re 4:5

seven pipes to the seven camps. or, seven several pipes to thelamps, etc.

12

11,12,14; Jud 9:9; Ro 11:17,24; Re 11:4

What.

12-14; 1:9,19; 5:6; 6:4; Da 7:16-19; 12:8; Mt 13:36; Re 7:13,14

Knowest.

13; Mr 4:13

No.

Ge 41:16; Ps 139:6; Da 2:30; 1Co 2:12-15

Not.

9:13-15; Nu 27:16; 2Ch 14:11; Isa 11:2-4; 30:1; 32:15; 63:10-14

Eze 37:11-14; Ho 1:7; Hag 2:2-5; 1Co 2:4,5; 2Co 10:4,5; 1Pe 1:12

might. or, army.

2Ch 32:7,8; Ps 20:6-8; 33:16,20,21; 44:3-7

O great.

14:4,5; Ps 114:4,6; Isa 40:3,4; 41:15; 64:1-3; Jer 51:25; Da 2:34,35

Mic 1:4; 4:1; Na 1:5,6; Hab 3:6; Hag 2:6-9,21-23; Mt 21:21; Lu 3:5

Re 16:20

headstone.

9; Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Mt 21:42; Mr 12:10; Lu 20:17; Ac 4:11

Eph 2:20; 1Pe 2:7

shoutings.

Ezr 3:11-13; 6:15-17; Job 38:6,7; Re 5:9-13; 19:1-6

Grace.

Jer 33:11; Ro 11:6; Eph 1:6,7; 2:4-8

8

have.

Ezr 3:8-13; 5:16

his hands.

6:12,13; Ezr 6:14,15; Mt 16:18; Heb 12:2

and.

2:8,9,11; 6:15; Isa 48:16; Joh 3:17; 5:36,37; 8:16-18; 17:21

despised.

Ezr 3:12,13; Ne 4:2-4; Job 8:7; Pr 4:18; Da 2:34,35; Ho 6:3; Hag 2:3

Mt 13:31-33; 1Co 1:28,29

for they, etc. or, since the seven eyes of the Lord shallrejoice.

Isa 66:11,14; Lu 15:5-10,32

and shall.

Am 7:7,8

plummet. Heb. stone of tin. those.

3:9; Re 8:2

they are.

1:10,11; 2Ch 16:9; Pr 15:3; Re 5:6

What.

3; Re 11:4

What be.

Mt 20:23; Re 11:4

through.

Hag 1:1; *marg:

Heb. by the hand of. empty, etc. or, empty out of themselvesoil into gold. the golden. Heb. the gold.

Knowest.

5; Heb 5:11,12

These.

6:13; Ex 29:7; 40:15; Le 8:12; 1Sa 10:1; 16:1,12,13; Ps 2:6; *marg:

Ps 89:20; 110:4; Isa 61:1-3; Da 9:24-26; Hag 1:1-12; Heb 1:8,9

Heb 7:1,2; Re 11:4

anointed ones. Heb. sons of oil.

Isa 5:1; *marg:

that.

3:1-7; 6:5; De 10:8; 1Ki 17:1; Jer 49:19; Lu 1:19

the Lord.

Jos 3:11,13; Isa 54:5; Mic 4:13

Zechariah 6

1 The vision of the four chariots.

9 By the crowns of Joshua are shewn the temple and kingdom of Christ the Branch.

I turned.

5:1

four.

1:18,19; Da 2:38-40; 7:3-7; 8:22

and the.

1Sa 2:8; Job 34:29; Ps 33:11; 36:6; Pr 21:30; Isa 14:26,27; 43:13

Isa 46:10,11; Da 4:15,35; Ac 4:28; Eph 1:11; 3:11

red.

1:8; Re 6:2-5; 12:3; 17:3

black.

6; Re 6:5,6

white.

Re 6:2; 19:11; 20:11

grisled.

6,7; 1:8; Da 2:33,40,41; Re 6:8

bay. or, strong.

unto.

1:9,19-21; 5:5,6,10

These.

1:10,11; Ps 68:17; 104:3,4; Eze 1:5-28; 10:9-19; 11:22; Heb 1:7,14

Re 14:6-13

spirits. or, winds.

1Ki 19:11; Ps 148:8; Da 7:2

go.

4:10; 1Ki 22:19; 2Ch 18:18,19; Job 1:6; 2:1,2; Da 7:10; Mt 18:10

Lu 1:19

the Lord.

4:14; Isa 54:5

the north.

Jer 1:14,15; 4:6; 6:1; 25:9; 46:10; 51:48; Eze 1:4

go forth after.

Da 7:5,6; 11:3,4

toward.

Da 11:5,6,9,40

the bay.

1:10; Ge 13:17; 2Ch 16:9; Job 1:6,7; 2:1,2; Da 7:19,24

quieted.

1:15; Jud 8:3; 15:7; Ec 10:4; Isa 1:24; 18:3,4; 42:13-15; 48:14

Isa 51:22,23; Jer 51:48,49; Eze 5:13; 16:42,63; Re 18:21,22

1:1; 7:1; 8:1

which.

Ezr 7:14-16; 8:26-30; Isa 66:20; Ac 24:17; Ro 15:25,26

the son.

14

make.

3:5; Ex 28:36-38; 29:6; 39:30; Le 8:9; Ps 21:3; So 3:11; Heb 2:9

Re 19:12

Joshua.

3:1; Hag 1:1,14; 2:4

behold.

13:7; Isa 32:1,2; Mic 5:5; Mr 15:39; Joh 19:5; Ac 13:38; 17:31

Heb 7:4,24; 8:3; 10:12

whose.

3:8; Ps 80:15-17; Isa 4:2; 11:1; 53:2; Jer 23:5; 33:15; Lu 1:78; *marg:

Joh 1:45

grow up out of his place. or, branch up from under him. heshall build.

4:6-9; 8:9; Mt 16:18; 26:61; Mr 14:58; 15:29; Joh 2:19-21; 1Co 3:9

Eph 2:20-22; Heb 3:3,4; 1Pe 2:4,5

bear.

Ps 21:5; 45:3,4; 72:17-19; Isa 9:6; 11:10; 22:24; 49:5,6; Jer 23:6

Da 7:13,14; Joh 13:31,32; 17:1-5; Eph 1:20-23; Php 2:7-11

Heb 2:7-9; 1Pe 3:22; Re 3:21; 5:9-13; 19:11-16

a priest.

11; Ge 14:18; Ps 110:4; Heb 3:1; 4:14-16; 6:20; 7:1,24,25-28

Heb 10:12,13

and the.

4:14; Ps 85:9-11; Isa 54:10; Da 9:25-27; Mic 5:4; Ac 10:36-43

Ro 5:1; Eph 2:13-18; Col 1:2,18-20; Heb 7:1-3

Helem.

10

a memorial.

Ex 12:14; 28:12,29; Nu 16:40; 31:54; Jos 4:7; 1Sa 2:30; Mt 26:13

Mr 14:9; Ac 10:4; 1Co 11:23-26

they.

Isa 56:6-8; 57:19; 60:10; Ac 2:39; 1Co 3:10-15; Eph 2:13-22

1Pe 2:4,5

and ye.

12; 2:8-11; 4:8,9; Joh 17:20,21

And this.

3:7; Isa 3:10; 58:10-14; Ro 16:26; 2Pe 1:5-10