He is one of at least 30 different prominent men that had the name of Zechariah mentioned in the bible. He was the son of Berekiah, and grandson of Iddo. His name means, 'Yahweh has remembered.' There is little known about him except that he was a priest and a prophet.
Upon looking at this further today, Zechariah 1:1-6, and then 7-21 are two different prophesies, which I did not know before.
In the first, the "word of the Lord" came to Zechariah to tell him that the Lord had become very angry with his ancestors, but the Lord had said, "return to me and I will return to you." Eventually after their release from Babylon captivity many years before, their ancestors had not paid God any mind and he wanted them to turn from their wicked ways and repent because of where that would eventually lead them as well. And they did repent. To be sure life had been hard on his people after those years captivity for these people. They had crop failures, hostile enemies and not a lot of money to deal with once released. ( Haggai 1:10-11, Ezra:4:1-5, and Haggai 1:6)
Their captivity had been much easier to deal with then their freedom from it. Surely God had forgotten them. They simply gave up and went back to their old evil ways. Which, did them absolutely no good at all.
God had remembered them and that is where the second prophesy came in. We will review that along what some of these other questions next time. I hope you will come back.
Today's references for information provided at:Enduring Word Bible Commentary Zechariah Chapter1
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