[916] x. 21, xii. 1. [917] Isa. xxiv. 21. [918] Book of Daniel x., xii.; Tobit xii. 15; Book of Enoch _passim_; Jude 9; Rev. viii. 2, etc. [919] Psalm lxxviii. 49. See above, p. 312, n. 896. [920] Amos iii. 6. [921] 1 Kings xxii. 20 ff. [922] 2 Sam. xxiv. 1; 1 Chron. xxi. 1. Though here difference of age between the two documents may have caused the difference of view. [923] There are two forms of the verb, שׂטן, satan, and שׂטם, satam, the latter apparently the older. [924] Num. xxii. 22, 32. [925] 1 Sam. xxix. 4; 2 Sam. xix. 23 Heb., 22 Eng.; 1 Kings v. 18, xi. 14, etc. [926] Zech. iii. 1 ff.; Job i. 6 ff. [927] 1 Chron. xxi. 1. [928] i. 6_b_. [929] See Davidson in _Cambridge Bible for Schools_ on Job i. 6-12, especially on ver. 9: “The Satan of this book may show the beginnings of a personal malevolence against man, but he is still rigidly subordinated to Heaven, and in all he does subserves its interests. His function is as the minister of God to try the sincerity of man; hence when his work of trial is over he is no more found, and no place is given him among the _dramatis personæ_ of the poem.” [930] Cheyne, _The Origin of the Psalter_, p. 272. Read carefully on this point the very important remarks on pp. 270 ff. and 281 f. CHAPTER XXIII “_THE SEED OF PEACE_” ZECHARIAH vii., viii. The Visions have revealed the removal of the guilt of the land, the restoration of Israel to their standing before God, the revival of the great national institutions, and God’s will to destroy the heathen forces of the world. With the Temple built, Israel should be again in the position which she enjoyed before the Exile. Zechariah, therefore, proceeds to exhort his people to put away the fasts which the Exile had made necessary, and address themselves, as of old, to the virtues and duties of the civic life. And he introduces his orations to this end by a natural appeal to the experience of the former days.