Zechariah Devotionals
One for each chapter. Want to test what you read? Take the Zechariah quizzes.
- Zechariah 1: Mercy Running Ahead of Us
Zechariah begins with a warning. The LORD had been very angry with the people's ancestors, who heard the earlier prophets and would not listen (1:2-4). Those ancestors are gone,…
- Zechariah 2: A City Too Full for Walls
A young man sets out with a measuring line to mark off Jerusalem's width and length, and an angel is sent running with a message (2:1-4). The city God has in mind cannot be…
- Zechariah 3: Clean Robes for the Accused
In this vision Joshua the high priest stands before the angel of the LORD in filthy clothes, with Satan beside him to accuse him (3:1-3). Joshua offers no defense at all. Instead…
- Zechariah 4: Finished by His Spirit
Zechariah is woken as if from sleep and shown a gold lampstand with seven lamps, with an olive tree on each side (4:1-3). The angel does not explain every detail, but he gives a…
- Zechariah 5: Wickedness Carried Away
These visions are strange, and the text explains them only so far. First an enormous scroll flies over the land. It is the curse going out against those who steal and those who…
- Zechariah 6: A Priest on the Throne
The night visions end where they began, with horses sent out by the LORD. Four chariots come out from between two bronze mountains, and the angel explains that they are the four…
- Zechariah 7: Whom Our Devotion Is For
Men from Bethel ask whether they should keep weeping and fasting in the fifth month, as they have for years (7:2-3). God answers with questions of his own. When they fasted and…
- Zechariah 8: Impossible Only in Our Eyes
One of the most tender promises in Zechariah 8 is also one of the most ordinary. Old men and women will sit in Jerusalem's streets again, leaning on their staffs, while boys and…
- Zechariah 9: A King Without a Warhorse
Zechariah 9 begins with judgment on the cities around Israel. Tyre has heaped up silver like dust, yet the Lord will throw her wealth into the sea (9:3-4). Even here there is…
- Zechariah 10: Whistled Home by the LORD
The chapter opens by telling the people to ask the LORD for rain, because he makes the storm clouds and gives the showers (10:1). Idols speak lies, diviners see false visions, and…
- Zechariah 11: The Shepherd Priced Cheaply
In a dark and difficult passage, the LORD tells Zechariah to shepherd a flock marked for slaughter, whose sellers praise God for their profits (11:4-5). He takes two staffs named…
- Zechariah 12: When Grace Brings Tears
The chapter opens with the Creator of the heavens and of the human spirit promising to defend Jerusalem when the nations come against it (12:1-9). Even the weakest of his people…
- Zechariah 13: A Fountain Opened at Cost
The day that began with mourning in chapter 12 continues with cleansing. God promises to open a fountain for David's house and Jerusalem's people, to wash them from sin and…
- Zechariah 14: Holy Down to the Cooking Pots
Zechariah 14 is hard to picture, and it is wise not to claim more than it says. A day of the LORD comes when nations gather against Jerusalem, and the city is captured, its houses…