Zechariah 6:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 6

⁷And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

Zechariah 6:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 1:10
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Genesis 13:17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Job 2:1-2
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. …
Job 1:6-7
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

The prophet is forward to receive this vision, and, as if he expected it, he turned and lifted up his eyes and looked. Though this was the seventh vision he had had, yet he did not think he had had enough; for the more we know of God and his will, if we know it aright, the more desirous we shall be to get a further acquaintance with God. Now observe here the sight that the prophet had of four char…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. bay--rather, the “fleet” (or “strong”). As the “red” are not otherwise mentioned, the epithet “fleet” (as the Hebrew for “bay” ought to be translated) in Zec 6:3 seems to apply to all four, and here especially to the “red.” Their office is to complete hereafter the work already in part executed by the previous three who have stilled Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Græco-Macedonia; namely, to punish f…