Zechariah זְכַרְיָה

Zechariah (Zecharyah) the son of Berechiah, prophet of the return alongside Haggai, calls the remnant home in both senses: 'Return to Me, says Hashem of hosts, and I will return to you.' The book opens into the richest visionary sequence among the Twelve — the rider among the myrtles, the four horns and four craftsmen, the measuring line and the city unwalled ('For I will be to her a wall of fire round about'), Joshua the high priest cleansed of his filthy garments with Satan rebuked ('Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?'), the golden candlestick between two olive-trees ('Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit'), the flying roll, the woman in the ephah, and the four chariots from between the mountains of brass — visions bound to the rebuilding of the Temple and the promise of the Shoot (Zemach). The later burdens carry the horizon to its furthest reach: the king who comes lowly and riding upon a donkey; the thirty pieces of silver cast to the potter; the spirit of grace poured on the house of David; the smitten shepherd and the refined third; and the day when living waters go out from Jerusalem, all nations come up to keep Sukkot, and 'Hashem shall be King over all the earth; in that day shall Hashem be One, and His name one.' This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Radak, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.