{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_zac_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_zac_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_zac_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/web/zac.htm","summary":"This is the biblical book of Zechariah (chapters 1\u20136, with truncation), a prophetic text from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament composed around 520\u2013518 BCE during the post-exilic period of Judah's restoration under Persian rule. The book opens with a call to repentance, framing Israel's past sufferings as divine consequence for their ancestors' disobedience, then transitions into a series of eight night visions mediated through an interpreting angel. These visions \u2014 including patrolling horsemen, four horns and craftsmen, a man measuring Jerusalem, a lampstand flanked by olive trees, a flying scroll, a woman in a basket, and four chariots \u2014 use dense symbolic imagery to convey Yahweh's renewed commitment to Jerusalem, the coming punishment of hostile nations, and the restoration of the temple and the city. A distinctive claim running through the visions is the dual messianic figure of the \"Branch\": a coming leader who will unite priestly and royal authority, explicitly prefigured in the crowning of the high priest Joshua. The text is notably concerned with theodicy and timing \u2014 the angel's complaint about seventy years of indignation \u2014 and argues that divine power, not human military strength, will accomplish restoration (\"not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit\"). Readers interested in Jewish apocalypticism, post-exilic theology, or the roots of later messianic expectation will find this a foundational primary source.","tags":["English Bible Translations","Modern Bible Translations","New Testament"],"text":null,"title":"World English Bible: Zechariah","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":6260}