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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Zechariah 1:3

Verse Zechariah 1:3. Turn ye unto me] This shows that they had power to return, if they would but use it.

And I will turn unto you] I will show you mercy and grant you salvation, if you will use the grace I have already given you. Men are lost, because they turn not unto God; but no man is lost because he had not power to return. God gives this, and he will require it.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE SAY THOU - Literally, “And thou sayest,” that is, this having been so, it follows that thou sayest or must say, “Turn ye unto Me.” In some degree they had turned to God, for whose sake they...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS 1. THE NIGHT VISIONS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Zechariah 1:1) _ 2. The first night vision (Zechariah 1:7) 3. The second night vision (Zechariah 1:18)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    This rebuke (see above, p. 575) seems inconsistent with a date five weeks or more after work had been begun at the Temple and at least ten days after the prophecy in Haggai 2:1. The clumsy handiwork o...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAITH. hath said. THE LORD OF HOSTS. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ Zebbaioth. App-4. This title occurs fifty-three times in this book, forty-four times in chs. 1-8, and nine times in chs. 9-14. It is characteri...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The call to Repentance. Zechariah's first message is one of warning, by the example of their fathers and the earlier prophets. On their fathers, as they well knew, the displeasure of Almighty God had...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _saith the Lord of hosts_ See note on Haggai 2:6. In this verse the phrase occurs three times. The first and third times it is literally, "saith Jehovah of hosts." But the second time there is a varia...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1237 AN EXHORTATION TO TURN TO GOD Zechariah 1:3. 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 Hos...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER XXVI INTRODUCTION TO SECTION I Zechariah 1:1-6 RV. In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the proph...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. THUS SAITH THE LARD OF HOSTS - a phrase fre...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:3 hosts, (f-18) This name is in Zech. 52 times....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LESSONS FROM THE PAST. THE FIRST AND SECOND VISIONS 1-6. The Prophet's message. He calls the people to repentance. 8-17. The First Vision: The Divine Messengers ever watching over the affairs of the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNTO THEM] i.e. the people. THE LORD OF HOSTS] a frequent phrase in Zechariah. Probably the original idea was of Jehovah as the leader of Israel's armies, then of sun, moon, and stars, the hosts of he...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ‘The *prophet (Zechariah) said that these events would happen. And these events did happen.’ (Matthew 21:4) (A *prophet tells people what G...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (1-6) On the four-and-twentieth day of the sixth mouth of the second year (B.C. 520) of Darius Hystaspis, the re-building of the Temple had been resumed (Haggai 1:15); and in the seventh month, on the...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNTO THEM — _i.e.,_ to the prophet’s contemporaries, whose fathers are spoken of in the preceding verse. TURN YE... AND I WILL TURN. — These words need not imply any special backsliding on the part of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֗ם כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET Zechariah 1:1; Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14 ZECHARIAH is one of the prophets whose personality as distinguished from their message exerts some degree of fascination on the student. This...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A VISION OF PARDON AND RESTORATION Zechariah 1:1-17 Zechariah does not slur over the sins of the past, but lays stress on the divine forgiveness. His only fear is lest God should call in vain, and th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    About a month after Haggai's second message, in which he had encouraged the people who were in danger of being disheartened by the memory of the past, Zechariah uttered his first prophetic word. He ga...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; (d) Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. (d) Let your fruits declare that you are Go...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Turn ye. Such expressions admonish us of our free-will, and when we answer, convert us, &c., (Lamentations v. 11.; Calmet) we confess that God's grace preventeth us. (Council of Trent, Session vi. 5....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. (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 LOR...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It then follows, _Thou shalt say to them, Return ye to me, and I will return to you _(11) The Prophet now expresses more clearly for what purpose he had spoken of God’s vengeance, with which he had vi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Spirit of God begins with an exhortation, founded on the proofs that the history of the people supplied of the manner in which the word of the prophets had taken hold of them. Jehovah's displeasur...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE SAY THOU UNTO THEM,.... This is an order from the Lord to Zechariah, to say unto them, in the name of the Lord: THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; of the hosts above and below, of angels and of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 3. _Therefore say thou unto them_] These...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore say_ Rather, _but say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Turn ye unto me_ The word _turn_, as it related to the people, signified that they should change their corrupt manners and turn to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the almighty Sovereign of the universe, TURN YE UNTO ME, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, a most impressive call to the children of the former tresp...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A CALL TO REPENTANCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S CALL TO RETURN TO HIM (vv. 1-6) Zechariah's name means "Jehovah remembers." He was the son of Berechiah ("Jehovah blesses") who was the son of Iddo ("the appointed time"). Israel had long been...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 God's almighty power and sovereign dominion, should engage and encourage sinners to repent and turn to Him. It is very desirable to have the Lord of hosts for our friend, and very dreadful to hav...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEREFORE, Heb. AND. SAY; command and require. UNTO THEM of the captivity who are returned to their own land. THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; in my name, by the authority I have over them as Lord of hos...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zechariah 1:3 say H559 (H8804) says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 Return H7725 (H8798) says...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S CALL TO THE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HIM AND LIVE IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS DEMANDS - THE OFFER OF A NEW BEGINNING (ZECHARIAH 1:1). Zechariah is the prophet of the new beginning, but as is always so with...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Zechariah's symbolic visions, warning of Jehovah's dispreasure with the nations. CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: The judgments of God which those who went before us were un...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Zechariah 1:1. _Zechariah;_ that is, the memory of God; a name which might seem prophetic, for the Lord remembered his people while yet in Babylon. He was contemporary with Haggai, and acted in concer...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Turn ye unto Me. .. and I will turn unto you._ THE DIVINE ORDER OF ALL TRUE PROGRESS The first step is at all times to turn to the Lord; the second follows, “turn you now from your evil ways, and fr...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 1:1 Oracles and Visions. Zechariah’s sequence of visions in Zechariah 1:7 is interrupted by an oracle of restoration ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 1:2. SORE] Lit. displeased with displeasure, wrath not common, whose greatness is given as a ground for their return. ZECHARIAH 1:3. THEREFORE] Lit. and thou sayest, or mus...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-6:15 Part I. A SERIES OF EIGHT VISIONS, AND A SYMBOLICAL ACTION. ZECHARIAH 1:1 § 1. _Title of the book, and author. _THE EIGHTH MONTH. This was called Bul before the Captivit

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we tonight now get into our study in the book of Zechariah beginning with chapter 1. Now if you remember when we studied the book of Haggai last week, Haggai was dating his prophesies in the sec...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:47; 1 Kings 8:48; 2 Chronicles 15:4; 2 Chronicles 30:6;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE MAN AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES Zechariah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The visions have to do primarily with God's dealings with His chosen people Israel. They will, however, be full of lessons for the sai...

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