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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Day of Yahweh and Strength Through Yahweh (Zechariah 12:1-9)

The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I am about to make

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Shepherds Who Care (Zechariah 11)

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!  Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined!  Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled! 

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Be a Tent Peg Leader (Zechariah 10)

Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.  For the household gods

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Be an Arrow for the Humble King (Zechariah 9:9-17)

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!  Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!  Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Remnant (Zechariah 9:1-8)

The oracle of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place.  For the LORD has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel, and on Hamath also, which borders

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Mourning to Joy (Zechariah 8:18-23)

And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: His Purpose to Bring Good (Zechariah 8:1-17)

And the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. Thus says the LORD: I have returned

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Why Fast? How to Fast (Zechariah 7)

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Temple, the Priest and the King (Zechariah 6:9-15)

And the word of the LORD came to me: “Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah. Take from them

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Giving God Rest (Zechariah 6:1-8)

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses, the

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Cart It Off! (Zechariah 5:5-11)

Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.” And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.”

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Avoiding the Broom (Zechariah 5:1-4)

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” Then

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: By My Spirit (Zechariah 4)

And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep. And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Remove the Filthy Garments From Him (Zechariah 3)

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Dwelling in Our Midst (Zechariah 2)

And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what

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