Zechariah 6:3

6:3 to the third white horses, and to the fourth spotted horses, all of them strong. ¹ 

Zechariah 7:4

7:4 The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,

Zechariah 8:1

The Blessing of True Fasting

8:1 Then the word of the Lord who rules over all ²  came to me as follows:

Zechariah 8:18

8:18 The word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows:

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¹ tc For the MT reading אֲמֻצִּים (’amutsim, “strong”) Aquila and Syriac presuppose אֲדֻמִּים (’adummim, “red”), thus giving the red horse an assignment and eliminating the problem of a fifth, “spotted” horse. The fourth would be a mottled red horse according to this view. There is, however, no manuscript support for this interpretation.

² sn Lord who rules over all. There is a remarkable concentration of this name of God in this section of Zechariah. Of 53 occurrences of יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת (yÿhvah tsÿva’ot) in the Hebrew text in the book, 18 are in this chapter. The reason is the sheer human impossibility of accomplishing what lies ahead – it must be done by the Lord who rules over all.