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First Vision: Horses and Riders

7-8 (A) On the twenty-fourth day of Shebat,[a] which was the eleventh month of that same year,[b] the Lord spoke to me in a vision during the night: In a valley among myrtle trees,[c] I saw someone on a red horse, with riders on red, brown, and white horses behind him.

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  1. 1.7,8 Shebat: The eleventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-January to mid-February.
  2. 1.7,8 that same year: See verse 1 and the note there.
  3. 1.7,8 myrtle trees: Evergreen shrubs, which in ancient times were symbols of fertility and renewal.

The Man Among the Myrtle Trees

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.(A)

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First Vision: Horses and Riders

7-8 (A) On the twenty-fourth day of Shebat,[a] which was the eleventh month of that same year,[b] the Lord spoke to me in a vision during the night: In a valley among myrtle trees,[c] I saw someone on a red horse, with riders on red, brown, and white horses behind him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.7,8 Shebat: The eleventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-January to mid-February.
  2. 1.7,8 that same year: See verse 1 and the note there.
  3. 1.7,8 myrtle trees: Evergreen shrubs, which in ancient times were symbols of fertility and renewal.

During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red(A) horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.(B)

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(A) the third chariot was pulled by white horses, and the fourth by spotted gray[a] horses.

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  1. 6.3 spotted gray: Or “strong.”

the third white,(A) and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful.

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The chariot with black horses goes toward the north, the chariot with white horses goes toward the west,[a] and the one with spotted horses goes toward the south.”

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  1. 6.6 goes toward the west: Or “follows behind.”

The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the one with the white horses toward the west,[a] and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”

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  1. Zechariah 6:6 Or horses after them