Zechariah 1:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I am the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah and the grandson of Iddo. In the eighth month of the second year that Darius was king of Persia, the LORD told me to say:

Cross References

Ezra 4:24

The Jews were forced to stop work on the temple and were not able to do any more building until the year after Darius became king of Persia.

Ezra 5:1

Then the LORD God of Israel told the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to speak in his name to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. And they did.

Nehemiah 12:16

Zechariah of Iddo, Meshullam of Ginnethon,

Nehemiah 12:4

Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,

Haggai 1:1

On the first day of the sixth month of the second year that Darius was king of Persia, the LORD told Haggai the prophet to speak his message to the governor of Judah and to the high priest. So Haggai told Governor Zerubbabel and High Priest Joshua

Haggai 1:15

And the work began on the twenty-fourth day of that same month.

Haggai 2:10

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the LORD God All-Powerful told the prophet Haggai

Haggai 2:20

That same day the LORD spoke to Haggai again and said:

Zechariah 1:7

On the twenty-fourth day of Shebat, which was the eleventh month of that same year, the LORD spoke to me in a vision during the night: in a valley among myrtle trees, I saw someone on a red horse, with riders on red, brown, and white horses behind him.

Zechariah 6:9

The LORD said to me:

Zechariah 7:1

On the fourth day of Chislev, the ninth month of the fourth year that Darius was king of Persia, the LORD again spoke to me.

Matthew 23:35

That's why you will be held guilty for the murder of every good person, beginning with the good man Abel. This also includes Barachiah's son Zechariah, the man you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Luke 11:51

This includes every prophet from the time of Abel to the time of Zechariah, who was murdered between the altar and the temple. You people will certainly be punished for all this.