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Zechariah · read by Bob Clark
62 verses, in order. Only the verses Bob read aloud are shown.
Zechariah 1
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In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying:Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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"The LORD was very angry with your fathers.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.'Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.' But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?Read from ESV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.'"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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"What are these, my lord?" I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, "I will show you what they are."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, "They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the angel of the LORD said, "How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the angel who was speaking with me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.'Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.'Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.'"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-07 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-08 Zechariah's Visions
Zechariah 2
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Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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"Where are you going?" I asked. "To measure Jerusalem," he replied, "and to determine its width and length."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet himRead from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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and said to him, "Run and tell that young man: 'Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.'"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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"Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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"Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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"Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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"On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
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Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-09 Zechariah's Visions
Zechariah 3
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Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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And the LORD said to Satan: "The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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So the angel said to those standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes!" Then he said to Joshua, "See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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Then I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him, as the angel of the LORD stood by.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
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On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.'"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-10 Zechariah's Visions
Zechariah 4
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"What do you see?" he asked. "I see a solid gold lampstand," I replied, "with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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"What are these, my lord?" I asked the angel who was speaking with me.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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So he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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Then I asked the angel, "What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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And I questioned him further, "What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?"Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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"Do you not know what these are?" he inquired. "No, my lord," I replied.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
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So he said, "These are the two anointed ones who are standing beside the Lord of all the earth."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-11 Zechariah's Visions
Zechariah 5
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Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, "Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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"This is Wickedness," he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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"To build a house for it in the land of Shinar, " he told me. "And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
Zechariah 6
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Then the LORD summoned me and said, "Behold, those going to the land of the north have given rest to My Spirit in the land of the north."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.'Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions
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Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God."Read from KJV · Mid South Conference 1978-12 Zechariah's Visions