Zechariah 1:13 KJV — MannaFest

Zechariah 1:13

And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

KJV

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ASV

And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even comfortable words.

WEB

So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

YLT

And Jehovah answereth the messenger, who is speaking with me, good words, comfortable words.

DBT

And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me good words, comforting words.

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Zechariah — Contemporary of Haggai — but longer, stranger, and more explicitly Messianic. Eight night visions, a royal-priestly crown, Zion's king riding on a donkey, and the pierced one they shall look upon.

Author: Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo (1:1) — priest and prophet of the return
Date: Began 520 BC, contemporary with Haggai; later oracles (ch. 9–14) may date to the later 5th c. BC

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Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Isaiah 40:1
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Jeremiah 29:10
For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Amos 9:11–15
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Jeremiah 30:10–22
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

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Thus all the good words and comfortable words of the gospel we receive from Jesus Christ, as he received them from the Father, in answer to the prayer of his blood, and his ministers are appointed to preach them to all the world. Now that God would speak comfortably to Jerusalem, Zechariah is the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

the Lord--JEHOVAH, called "the angel of the Lord (Jehovah)" (Zec 1:12). good words and comfortable words--literally, "words, consolations." The subject of these consolatory words is stated in Zec 1:14, &c.; the promise of full re-establishment, Jer 29:10, 11 (compare Isa 57:18;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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