The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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Zechariah 1
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- 1:1 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,
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- 1:2 The
LORD hath been
sore
displeased with your
fathers.
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- 1:3 Therefore
say thou unto them, Thus
saith the
LORD of
hosts;
Turn ye unto me,
saith the
LORD of
hosts, and I will
turn unto you,
saith the
LORD of
hosts.
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- 1:4 Be ye not as your
fathers, unto whom the
former
prophets have
cried,
saying, Thus
saith the
LORD of
hosts;
Turn ye now from your
evil
ways, and from your
evil
doings: but they did not
hear, nor
hearken unto me,
saith the
LORD.
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- 1:5 Your
fathers, where are they? and the
prophets, do they
live for
ever?
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- 1:6 But my
words and my
statutes, which I
commanded my
servants the
prophets, did they not take
hold of your
fathers? and they
returned and
said, Like as the
LORD of
hosts
thought to
do unto us, according to our
ways, and according to our
doings, so hath he
dealt with us.
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- 1:7 Upon the
four and
twentieth
day of the
eleventh
*
month, which is the
month
Sebat, 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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- 1:8 I
saw by
night, and behold a
man
riding upon a
red
horse, and he
stood among the myrtle
trees that were in the
bottom; and
behind him were there
red
horses,
speckled, and
white.
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- 1:9 Then
said I, O my
lord, what are these? And the
angel that
talked with me
said unto me, I will
shew thee what these be.
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- 1:10 And the
man that
stood among the myrtle
trees
answered and
said, These are they whom the
LORD hath
sent to
walk to and fro through the
earth.
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- 1:11 And they
answered the
angel of the
LORD that
stood among the myrtle
trees, and
said, We have walked to and
fro through the
earth, and, behold, all the
earth sitteth
still, and is at
rest.
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- 1:12 Then the
angel of the
LORD
answered and
said, O
LORD of
hosts, how long wilt thou not have
mercy on
Jerusalem and on the
cities of
Judah, against which thou hast had
indignation these threescore and
ten
years?
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- 1:13 And the
LORD
answered the
angel that
talked with me with
good
words and
comfortable
words.
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- 1:14 So the
angel that
communed with me
said unto me,
Cry thou,
saying, Thus
saith the
LORD of
hosts; I am
jealous for
Jerusalem and for
Zion with a
great
jealousy.
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- 1:15 And I am
very
sore
displeased with the
heathen that are at
ease: for I was but a
little
displeased, and they
helped forward the
affliction.
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- 1:16 Therefore thus
saith the
LORD; I am
returned to
Jerusalem with
mercies: my
house shall be
built in it,
saith the
LORD of
hosts, and a
line
* shall be stretched
forth upon
Jerusalem.
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- 1:17
Cry yet,
saying, Thus
saith the
LORD of
hosts; My
cities through
prosperity shall yet be spread
abroad; and the
LORD shall yet
comfort
Zion, and shall yet
choose
Jerusalem.
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- 1:18 Then lifted I
up mine
eyes, and
saw, and behold
four
horns.
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- 1:19 And I
said unto the
angel that
talked with me, What be these? And he
answered me, These are the
horns which have
scattered
Judah,
Israel, and
Jerusalem.
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- 1:20 And the
LORD
shewed me
four
carpenters.
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- 1:21 Then
said I, What
come these to
do ? And he
spake,
saying, These are the
horns which have
scattered
Judah, so
that no
man did lift
up his
head: but these are
come to
fray them, to cast
out the
horns of the
Gentiles, which lifted
up their
horn over the
land of
Judah to
scatter it.
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