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[[Zechariah 7-8 | '''II. The Delegation from Bethel (7-8)''']]
 
[[Zechariah 7-8 | '''II. The Delegation from Bethel (7-8)''']]

Revision as of 09:17, 8 June 2012

The Old Testament > Zechariah

Subpages: Chapters 1-6, Chapters 7-8, Chapters 9-14

                                                                 Next page: Chapters 1-6

The pages relating to Zechariah are under construction in early June 2012. The following links will be maintained as long as content remains on those pages.

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14


Historical setting

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Brief outline and summary

The book of Zechariah can be outlined as follows:

Zechariah

I. The Eight Visions (1-6)

A. Turn to God, repent (1:1-6)
B. Vision 1: Four riders in the myrtle trees (1:7-17)
C. Vision 2: Four horns and four workers (1:18-21)
D. Vision 3: The man with the measuring line (2:1-13)
E. Vision 4: High priest, Joshua (3:1-10)
E. Vision 5: Gold lampstand, Zerubabbel (4:1-14)
D. Vision 6: The flying Scroll and the curse (5:1-4)
C. Vision 7: The filthy woman in the basket (5:5-11)
B. Vision 8: Four chariots (6:1-8)
A. Ceremony as a type of the Branch who will build the temple (6:9-15)

II. The Delegation from Bethel (7-8)

III. _________ (9-14)


Each of the major divisions of Zechariah is discussed separately on the following subpages: Chapters 1-6, Chapters 7-8, Chapters 9-14.


Detailed discussion

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Parallel passages in other scriptures

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Passages affected by Joseph Smith Translation

This list is complete:

  • Zechariah 4:10, 14
  • Zechariah 6:5-6
  • Zechariah 8:7, 13


Complete outline and page map

Items in blue or purple text indicate hyperlinked pages that address specific portions of Amos.

Zechariah
A. Turn to God, repent (1:1-6)
B. Vision 1: Four riders in the myrtle trees (1:7-17)
C. Vision 2: Four horns and four workers (1:18-21)
D. Vision 3: The man with the measuring line (2:1-13)
E. Vision 4: High priest, Joshua (3:1-10)
E. Vision 5: Gold lampstand, Zerubabbel (4:1-14)
D. Vision 6: The flying Scroll and the curse (5:1-4)
C. Vision 7: The filthy woman in the basket (5:5-11)
B. Vision 8: Four chariots (6:1-8)
A. Ceremony as a type of the Branch who will build the temple (6:9-15)

II. The Delegation from Bethel (7-8)

III. _________ (9-14)

A. _________________ (9:1-10:42)
Judgment on those who fight against Israel when it repents (9:1-8)
The coming of Zion’s king (9:9-17)
The gathering of Israel (10:1-12)
a.worthless shepherds condemned (10:1-3)
b. promise of God’s care (10:4-12)
B. Shepherds: condemnation of Lebanon and inhabitants (11:1-17)
a. worthless shepherds lament judgment (11:1-3)
b. good shepherd feeds, rejects the flock of the slaughter (11:4-9)
b. flock rejects the good shapherd (11:10-14)
• staff: favor (11:10-11)
• rejection of the good shepherd (11:12-13)
• staff: bands (11:14)
a. worthless shepherds condemned (11:15-17)
C. Oracle: Destiny of the People of God (12:1-14:21)
a. purification of Jerusalem, Second Coming (12:1-14)
• Israel devours enemies who besiege it at Armageddon or Valley of Decision (12:1-9)
• Jerusalem will mourn for Jesus whom it pierced (12:10-14)
b. cleansing of Israel’s lands of prophecy – is 13:2-6 a chiasmus? (13:1-6)
c. separation, gathering, and salvation of a remnant (13:7-9)
Chapter 14 – the Day of the Lord
d. Promise of future deliverance and security, Judgment on enemies (14:1-15)
• Armageddon, the final siege of Jerusalem (1-3)
• The Lord will appear on Mount of Olives and rescue his people (4-5)
• no night or day, temple fountain, new heaven and new earth (6-9)
• the New Jerusalem (10-11)
• attacking nations punished (12-15)
e. ultimate exaltation of Jerusalem, fate of those who do or do not wortship at Jerusalem (14:16-19)
f. Israel purified and holy (14:20-21)


Questions for further thought and study

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Footnotes

reflist


Additional sources and links

  • Books
  • Wayment, Thomas A., ed. The Complete Joseph Smith Translation of the Old Testament, p. 219-20. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 2009. (ISBN 1606411314) BX8630.A2 2009



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