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This section records the third of Zechariah's eight visions, in which he saw a man with a measuring line travelling to Jerusalem to measure the city's length and width. [17] The vision points to the unlimited size of the restored city (cf. Isaiah 49:19–21), assuring the people that God's glory will be in there (cf. Ezekiel 43:1–5; Haggai 2:9).
The passage is in Zechariah 1:18-21 in traditional English texts; in Hebrew texts 1:18-21 is numbered 2:1-4. The vision precedes the vision of a man with a measuring line (Zechariah 2:1-5, or 2:5-9 in Hebrew texts).
One of the three prophets from the post-exilic period, Zechariah's prophecies took place during the reign of Darius the Great. [1]Chapters 1–8 of the book are contemporary with the prophecies of Haggai, [2] while chapters 9–14 (often termed Second Zechariah) are thought to have been written much later—in the 5th century, during the late Persian or early Ptolemaic period. [3]
Zechariah 1 is the first chapter [a] of the Book of Zechariah in the Hebrew Bible [1] or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [2] [3] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Zechariah. In the Hebrew Bible it forms a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. [4]
Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), a prophet of the kingdom of Judah, spelled this way in KJV. His writings, the Book of Zechariah. Zechariah of Israel (Zachariah in KJV), king of Israel (reigned for 6 months in c. 752 BCE), son of Jeroboam; Zechariah Ben Jehoiada, son of the High Priest in the times of Ahaziah and Joash. See also:
Zechariah became king of Israel in Samaria in the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah. (2 Kings 15:8) William F. Albright has dated his reign to 746 BC – 745 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 753 BC – 752 BC. [1] The account of his reign is briefly told in 2 Kings (2 Kings 15:8–12).
Zechariah's prophetical career probably began in the second year of Darius the Great, king of the Achaemenid Empire (520 BCE). [4] His greatest concern appears to have been with the building of the Second Temple. [4] He features in chapters 1-8 of the Book of Zechariah but he does not appear in the remaining chapters of the book (chapters 9-14 ...
Zechariah and St. John the Baptist. A medieval Georgian fresco from the Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem. According to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king Herod, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia, whose wife Elizabeth was also of the priestly family of Aaron.