Volume III
The Book of the Prophet Zechariah
With John Brown’s marginal references, notes and reflections · Vol. III, p. 1482
Zechariah was one of the captives who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon, and, from an expression in ch. 2. 4, there is reason to conclude that he was called to the prophetic office when a young man. He began to prophesy in the second year of Darius Hystaspes, in the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year, and consequently two months after Haggai, and was a powerful assistant to that prophet in promoting the building of the temple. His prophecy, after a solemn call to repentance, contains nine visions with which God was pleased to favour him. ch. i.-vi.; followed by three discourses enforcing godly practice, with predictions of the trials and deliverances of his people, and of the entire gospel church to the end of the world, ch. vii.-xiv. C.