Zechariah 1:1

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH

Chronological Notes relative to this Book

-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3484.

-Year of the Julian Period, 4194.

-Year of the Jewish era of the world, 3241.

-Year from the Flood, 1828.

-Year from the vocation of Abram, 1401.

-Year since the first celebration of the Olympic games in Elis, by the Idaei Dactyli, 934.

-Year since the destruction of Troy, according to the general account, 664.

-Year since the foundation of the monarchy of the Israelites by the Divine appointment of Saul to the regal dignity, 576.

-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 492.

-Year from the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 456.

-Year since the re-establishment of the Olympic games in Elis by Lycurgus, Iphitus, and Cleosthenes, 365.

-Year since the conquest of Coroebus at Olympia, usually called the first Olympiad, 257.

-First year of the sixty-fifth Olympiad.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Varronian or generally received computation, 234.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Cato and the Fasti Consulares, 233.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Polybius the historian, 232.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 228.

-Year of the era of Nabonassar, 228.

-Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 202.

-Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 68.

-Year since the destruction of the Chaldean empire by the Persians, 18.

-Year before the birth of Christ, 516.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 520.

-Cycle of the Sun, 22.

-Cycle of the Moon, 14.

-Second year of Darius I., king of Persia.

-Twenty-eighth year of Amyntas, king of Macedon.

-Seventh year of Demaratus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.

-Eleventh year of Cleomenes, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.

-Fifteenth year of Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of the Romans.

-This was about twelve years before the commencement of the consular government. According to some chronologers this was the age of Confucius.

CHAPTER I

The prophet earnestly exhorts the people to repentance, that

they may escape such punishments as had been inflicted on

their fathers, 1-6.

The vision of the horses, with the signification, 7-11.

The angel of the Lord successfully intercedes in behalf of

Jerusalem, 12-17.

The vision of the four horns, and of the four carpenters,

18-21.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Zechariah 1:1. In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius] This was Darius Hystaspes; and from this date we find that Zechariah began to prophecy just two months after Haggai.

Son of Iddo] There are a number of various readings on this name, ידו Iddo, and עדוא Iddo, both in MSS. and in editions; but they are only different ways of writing the same name.