which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
006:006 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country;
and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth
toward the south country."
006:007 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk
back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around
and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth
through the earth.
006:008 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold,
those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit
in the north country."
006:009 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
006:010 "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah,
and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house
of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
006:011 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on
the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
006:012 and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "Behold,
the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out
of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh;
006:013 even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear
the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall
be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall
be between them both.
006:014 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,
and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the
temple of Yahweh.
006:015 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh;
and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice
of Yahweh your God."'"
007:001 It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word
of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month,
the month of Chislev.
007:002 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men,
to entreat Yahweh's favor,
007:003 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies,
and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month,
separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
007:004 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
007:005 "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying,
'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh
month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me,
really to me?
007:006 When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves,
and drink for yourselves?
007:007 Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets,
when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities
around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"
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