Discovery Box| (1.00) | Hag 2:18 |
| ‘Think carefully about the past: 1 from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, 2 to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, 3 think about it. 4 |
| (1.00) | Hag 2:20 |
| Then the Lord spoke again to Haggai 1 on the twenty-fourth day of the month: 2 |
| (1.00) | Hag 2:22 |
| I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. 1 I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another. 2 |
| (1.00) | Hag 2:23 |
| On that day,’ 1 says the Lord who rules over all, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,’ 2 says the Lord, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, 3 for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord who rules over all.” 4 |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:1 |
| In the eighth month of Darius’ 1 second year, 2 the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, 3 son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows: |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:3 |
| Therefore say to the people: 1 The Lord who rules over all 2 says, “Turn 3 to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will turn to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:6 |
| But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? 1 Then they paid attention 2 and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’” |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:7 |
| On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in Darius’ second year, 1 the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows: |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:11 |
| The riders then agreed with the angel of the Lord, 1 who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have been walking about on the earth, and now everything is at rest and quiet.” |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:13 |
| The Lord then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me. |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:14 |
| Turning to me, the messenger then said, “Cry out that the Lord who rules over all says, ‘I am very much moved 1 for Jerusalem and for Zion. |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:15 |
| But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. 1 I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves. |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:19 |
| So I asked the angelic messenger 1 who spoke with me, “What are these?” He replied, “These are the horns 2 that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 3 |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:20 |
| Next the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 1:21 |
| I asked, “What are these going to do?” He answered, “These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. 1 But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah’s enemies 2 and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people.” 3 |
| (1.00) | Zec 3:2 |
| The Lord 1 said to Satan, “May the Lord rebuke you, Satan! May the Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, 2 rebuke you! Isn’t this man like a burning stick snatched from the fire?” |
| (1.00) | Zec 3:7 |
| “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘If you live 1 and work according to my requirements, you will be able to preside over my temple 2 and attend to my courtyards, and I will allow you to come and go among these others who are standing by you. |
| (1.00) | Zec 3:9 |
| As for the stone 1 I have set before Joshua – on the one stone there are seven eyes. 2 I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. 3 |
| (1.00) | Zec 4:6 |
| Therefore he told me, “These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ 1 says the Lord who rules over all.” |
| (1.00) | Zec 4:8 |
| Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me as follows: |
