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A Study of the Book of Zechariah by Harold A STUDY OF THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH BY HAROLD HARSTVEDT SOUTH WALTON CHURCH OF CHRIST WALTON COUNTY FLORIDA, 32459 CHRONOLGY OF EVENTS ISAIAH (740-700BC)? JEREMIAH (628-608BC)? OBADIAH (605-585 BC)? EZEKIEL (593-571 BC)? DANIEL (605-530 BC)? EZRA (538-457 BC)? HAGGAI (520BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-480 BC)? ESTHER (479-478 BC)? NEHEMIAH (445-432 BC)? MALACHI (440-430 BC)? CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS - PROPHETS - KINGS OBADIAH (605-585 BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR EZEKIEL (593-573 BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR DANIEL (605-530 BC)? CYRUS - DARIUS EZRA (538-457 BC)? CYRUS - DARIUS - ARTAXERXES HAGGAI (520BC)? DARIUS ZECHARIAH (519-480 BC)? DARIUS ESTHER (479-478 BC)? ARTAXERXES NEHEMIAH (445-432 BC)? ARTAXERXES MALACHI (433 BC)? ARTAXERXES WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH? THERE ARE TWENTY-SIX ZECHARIAHS IN THE BIBLE WHICH ONE WROTE THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH? ZECHARIAH THE SON OF IDDO? (536-516BC)? READ: EZRA 5:1 1 The prophet Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them. READ: EZRA 6:14 14 The elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. (NKJ) ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH THE SON OF IDDO READ: ZECHARIAH 1:1 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, READ: ZECHARIAH 1:7 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet: READ: ZECHARIAH 7:1 1 In the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev, READ: ZECHARIAH 7:8 8 The word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, WHAT IS KNOWN OF ZECHARIAH? ZACHARIAH WAS THE SON OF A PROPHET IDDO READ: NEHEMIAH 12:1-7 1 These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, 5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 6 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the heads of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua. (NKJ) WHAT IS KNOWN OF ZECHARIAH? ZACHARIAH WAS A PRIEST AND A PROPHET READ: NEHEMIAH 12:12-21 12 In the days of Joiakim, the priests, the heads of the fathers' houses were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; 14 of Melichu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; 15 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 17 of Abijah, Zichri; the son of Minjamin; of Moadiah, Piltai; 18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; 19 of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; 20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; and of Jedaiah, Nethaneal. (NKJ) WHAT IS KNOWN OF ZECHARIAH? ZECHARIAH PROPHESIED WITH HAGGAI (536-516BC)? READ: EZRA 5:1 1 The prophet Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them. READ: EZRA 6:14 14 The elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. READ: HAGGAI 1:1 1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, PROPHET-EVENT BOOKS DATE HAGGAI’S FIRST VISION HAGGAI 1:1-11 EZRA 5:1 520BC? BUILDING OF TEMPLE HAGGAI 1:12-15 EZRA 5:2 HAGGAI’S SECOND VISION HAGGAI 2:1-9 ZECHARIAH PREACHES ZERCHARIAH 1:1-6 HAGGAI’S THIRD VISION HAGGAI 2:10-19 HAGGAI’S FOURTH VISION HAGGAI 2:20-23 TETTENAI: LETTER TO DARIUS EZRA 5:3-6:14 519BC? ZECHARIAH’S FIRST VISIONS ZECHARIAH 1:7-6:8 JOSHUA: HIGH PRIEST ZECHARIAH 6:9-15 BLESSINGS PROMISED ZECHARIAH 7–8 518BC? DEDICATION OF TEMPLE EZRA 6:15-18 516BC? ZECHARIAH’S LAST VISIONS ZECHARIAH 9–14 480BC? OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER ONE ZECHARIAH EXHORTS THE PEOPLE TO REPENT V. 1-6 ZECHARIAH’S VISION OF HORSES AND ITS MEANING V. 7-11 ANGEL OF THE LORD INTERCEDES FOR JERUSALEM V. 12-17 VISION OF FOUR HORNS AND OF FOUR CARPENTERS V. 18-21 READ: ZECHARIAH 1:1-3 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2 The LORD has been very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Return to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 1:1-3 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, WHO WAS THIS DARIUS? READ: HAGGAI 1:1 1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, (NKJ) KING DARIUS 520BC? WHAT THREE MEN DID THE LORD SPEAK TO? QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 1:1-3 2 The LORD has been very angry with your fathers. WHY WAS THE LORD ANGRY WITH THEIR FATHERS? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 36:15-18 15 The LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy. 17 Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 1:1-3 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Return to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. WHAT DID THE LORD WANT THE PEOPLE TO DO? READ: MALACAI 3:7 7 From the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. BUT you said, In what way shall we return? READ: JEREMIAH 18:7-8 7 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8IF that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil THEN I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. READ: ZECHARIAH 1:4-6 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor heed Me, says the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 Yet surely My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 1:4-6 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor heed Me, says the LORD. WHO WERE THESE FORMER PROPHETS? ISAIAH? JEREMIAH? EZEKIEL? READ: ISAIAH 45:22 JEREMIAH 18:11 EZEKIEL 33:11 QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 1:4-6 WHO WERE THESE FORMER PROPHETS? READ: ISAIAH 45:22 22 Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. READ: JEREMIAH 18:11 11 Speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. READ: EZEKIEL 33:11 11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
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