Category: Old Testament

Let’s turn our attention to the ninth chapter of the book of Zechariah. This book started out with the Lord offering to turn once again to the exile who had returned from Babylon. If they would turn to him, he promised that he would also turn to them. And it turns out that they did…

Zechariah 8 Bible Study verses 18-23: Let’s turn our attention to Zechariah 8. We’ll be studying verses 18-23 to end this chapter. And what we’ll see in this section is the Lord’s 4th response to the Jews’ question about fasting. Remember that the Jews who came back from Babylon to Jerusalem were curious as to…

Zechariah 8 Commentary Verses 9-17 | Let’s turn our attention to the 8th chapter of the book of Zechariah. This book has started with a call to repentance for the Jews who had returned to Israel after being held captive in Babylon for about 70 years. The Jews apparently did repent and so God promised…

Zechariah 8 Visions Verses 1-8 | Let’s turn to Zechariah 8 in our Bibles. The 8th chapter of the book of Zechariah is where we find the third response of the Lord to a question that the Jews asked earlier in chapter 7. The entire third response is found in verses 1-17. But we’re only…

Zechariah 7 Commentary Verses 8-14: Let’s turn our attention to Zechariah 7. We’ll be continuing today in a section that began in the first verse of this chapter with a question. A few of the Jews had been sent by others to ask whether they should continue to mourn and fast commemorating the destruction of…

Zechariah 7 Commentary Verses 1-7: Let’s turn our attention to the 7th chapter of the book of the Old Testament prophet Zechariah. Zechariah 7 begins a new section in this book. Up to this point, Zechariah started his book with a message from the Lord commanding the Jews to turn to him so that he…

Let’s turn our attention once more to the 6th chapter of the Old Testament prophet Zechariah. There’s no question that Zechariah 6 contains the last vision given to this prophet. The problem is determining which of the two visions in this chapter are indeed the “last” vision. Was the vision that we studied last time…