Click
here to show/hide instructions.
Instructions on how to use the page:
The commentary for the selected verse is is displayed below.
All commentary was produced against the King James, so the same verse from that translation may appear as well. Hovering your mouse over a commentary's scripture reference attempts to show those verses.
Use the browser's back button to return to the previous page.
Or you can also select a feature from the Just Verses menu appearing at the top of the page.
Selected Verse: Zechariah 1:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Zec 1:13 |
King James |
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
the Lord--JEHOVAH, called "the angel of the Lord (Jehovah)" (Zac 1:12).
good words and comfortable words--literally, "words, consolations." The subject of these consolatory words is stated in Zac 1:14, &c.; the promise of full re-establishment, Jer 29:10-11 (compare Isa 57:18; Hos 11:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me - Either directly, at the intercession of the angel of the Lord, or mediately through an answer first given to him, and by him communicated to the subordinate angel. Neither is expressed.
Good words - As God had promised, "after seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word unto you, causing you to return to this place" Jer 29:10; and Joshua says, "There failed not ought of any good word which the Lord spake unto the house of Israel" (Jos 21:43 (45 English) add Jos 23:14-15).
Comfortable words - Literally, "consolations" (as Isa 57:18). Perhaps the Angel who received the message had, from their tender compassion for us, whereby they "joy over one sinner that repenteth" Luk 15:10, a part in these consolations which he conveyed. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
angel
(See Scofield) - (Heb 1:4). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The Lord answered the angel - And the angel told the prophet that the answer was gracious and comfortable. This answer is given in the next verse. |
8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.