📖 The Book of Zechariah
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God will return to Jerusalem — the Messiah is coming.
Who wrote Zechariah?
Author
Zechariah
Written
c. 515 BC
Genre
Prophet
Why Zechariah was written
Zechariah encourages the returned exiles through eight night visions and several oracles, promising that God has returned to Jerusalem, will cleanse his people, and will one day send a triumphant yet humble King who is also a suffering Shepherd.
Outline of Zechariah
- 11–8: Eight visions and four sermons — encouragement for the building work
- 29–14: Two oracles — the coming King; the pierced Shepherd; the final victory
Key verses
Zechariah 4:6Zechariah 9:9Zechariah 12:10Zechariah 13:7
How Zechariah points to Christ
Zechariah contains more Messianic prophecies than any book outside Isaiah. The triumphal entry (9:9), the thirty pieces of silver (11:12-13), the pierced one (12:10), and the shepherd struck (13:7) are all directly quoted in the Passion narratives.
How Zechariah begins
1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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