Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Zechariah 1:9
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“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
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Then said I, O my lord, what [are] these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these [be].
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Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these are.
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Zechariah 1
7 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 Berechiah, the son of Iddo.
8 I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
9 “What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”
11 And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”
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