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Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with good words, [even] comfortable words.
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God Answers with Comfort
Commentators agree that God's response of "good and comfortable words" is a direct answer to the angel's intercession for Judah. This signifies the end of a long period of divine discipline and the beginning of restoration, fulfilling earlier promises like those in Jeremiah 29:10 and Isaiah 40:1.
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Zechariah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me - Either directly, at the intercession of the angel of the Lord, or mediately through an…
19th Century
Anglican
Angel. —The Lord does not reply directly to the intercessor, but addresses the angel-interpreter, who immediately, in the words of…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet shows here that, though God did not immediately on the first day stretch forth his hand to the miserable Jews, he was still favorable t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me See (Zechariah 1:9) what was the effect of Christ's …
The prophet saw a dark, shady grove, hidden by hills. This represented the low, melancholy condition of the Jewish church. A man like a warrior sat…
