Zechariah (KJV)
14 chapters · 211 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of Zechariah
Zechariah encourages the temple rebuilders with visions and oracles of God's renewed presence and future hope. It looks beyond restoration to a coming king and the ultimate reign of the LORD.
- Genre
- Prophecy (minor) & apocalyptic
- Author
- Traditionally attributed to the prophet Zechariah
- First audience
- The post-exilic community in Jerusalem
How to read it: Read the visions as symbol-laden apocalyptic and the later oracles with near and far horizons; read symbols as symbols.
It opens: “In 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,” (Zechariah 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in Zechariah
The verses of Zechariah that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.