Zaccaria 1:1

1 NELL’ottavo mese, nell’anno secondo di Dario, la parola del Signore fu indirizzata al profeta Zaccaria, figliuolo di Berechia, figliuolo di Iddo, dicendo:

Zaccaria 1:1 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 1:1

In the eighth month
The month Marchesvan, called the month Bul, in ( 1 Kings 6:38 ) which answers to part of our October, and part of November: this was but two months from the first prophecy of Haggai, ( Haggai 1:1 ) and but a few days after his second, ( Haggai 2:1 ) so near were the prophecies of these two prophets together: in the second year of Darius:
king of Persia; not Darius the Mede, but Darius the son of Hystaspes: came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah;
that is, "the word of prophecy from before the Lord", as the Targum paraphrases it; which came to him, either in a dream, or in a vision, or by an impulse on his mind; who is described by his descent, the son of Barachias; mention is made of this name in ( Matthew 23:35 ) . It signifies "the blessed of the Lord", and is the same with Eulogius or Benedictus: the son of Iddo the prophet:
the word "prophet", as Kimchi observes, belongs to Zechariah; not but that his grandfather Iddo might be a prophet too; and the same writer takes notice, that in the Midrash mention is made of Iddo the prophet; and so there is an Iddo that is called the seer and the prophet in ( 2 Chronicles 9:29 ) ( 12:15 ) ( 13:22 ) but whether the same with this is not certain. The name is by some thought to be the same with Firmicus, Statius, Robertus: saying;
as follows:

Zaccaria 1:1 In-Context

1 NELL’ottavo mese, nell’anno secondo di Dario, la parola del Signore fu indirizzata al profeta Zaccaria, figliuolo di Berechia, figliuolo di Iddo, dicendo:

2 Il Signore è stato gravemente adirato contro a’ vostri padri;

3 ma tu di’ loro: Così ha detto il Signor degli eserciti: Convertitevi a me, dice il Signor degli eserciti, ed io mi rivolgerò a voi, ha detto il Signor degli eserciti.

4 Non siate come i vostri padri, a’ quali i profeti dei tempi passati gridavano, dicendo: Così ha detto il Signor degli eserciti: Deh! convertitevi dalle vostre vie malvage, e dalle vostre malvage opere; ma essi non mi ubbidirono, e non mi porsero le orecchie, dice il Signore.

5 I vostri padri dove son eglino? e que’ profeti potevano essi vivere in perpetuo?