Zechariah 1:9
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.
American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.
Webster's Revision
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.
World English Bible
Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."
English Revised Version (ERV)
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.
Definitions for Zechariah 1:9
Clarke's Zechariah 1:9 Bible Commentary
O my lord, what are these - The angel here mentioned was distinct from those mentioned in the eighth verse; he who talked with the prophet, Zechariah 1:13.
Barnes's Zechariah 1:9 Bible Commentary
What are these? - He asks, not who, but what they import.
The angel that talked with me - Literally, "spake in me." The very rare expression seems meant to convey the thought of an inward speaking, whereby the words should be borne directly into the soul, without the intervention of the ordinary outward organs. God says to Moses, "If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make Myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak (literally) in him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so - In him will I speak mouth to mouth Numbers 12:6-9;" and Habakkuk says of the like inward teaching, "I will watch to see, what He will speak in me" . It is the characteristic title of one attendant-angel, who was God's expositor of the visions to Zechariah (Zechariah 1:13-14, Zechariah 1:19, (Zechariah 2:2 Hebrew) Zechariah 2:3; (7) Zechariah 4:1, Zechariah 4:4-5; Zechariah 5:5, Zechariah 5:10; Zechariah 6:4). Dionysius: "By his ministry God showed me things to come, in that that angel formed in the spirit and imaginative power of Zechariah phantasms or images of things which were foreshown him, and gave him to understand what those images signified."
Wesley's Zechariah 1:9 Bible Commentary
1:9 O my Lord - This was Christ, the Lord of hosts.What are these - What is the meaning of these appearances.The angel - Christ, the angel of the covenant.