Book of Zechariah

Japanese: ゼカリヤ書 - ゼカリヤしょ（英語表記）Book of Zechariah

A book of the Old Testament. One of the 12 minor prophets from the late exile period. It consists of two completely unrelated parts. The first half (chapters 1-8) is a collection of Zechariah's prophecies, and chapters 9 and after are by another prophet (chapters 9-11 are called 2 Zechariah, and chapters 12-14 are called 3 Zechariah). After the return from the Babylonian exile, Jerusalem was in a difficult situation and the work of rebuilding the temple was suspended. Guided by the words of the Lord and eight visions that came to Zechariah, he explained that the seeds of peace and prosperity for the people of Israel lay in the rebuilding of the temple, the house of the Lord of hosts, that is, when the people return to the Lord and the house of the Lord is built in Jerusalem, the Lord will return to Zion, and Jerusalem will be called a faithful city, and the cities will be full of good things, which greatly contributed to the resumption of the work. The second half contains two oracles. The first contains prophecies about events occurring in the late 4th to early 3rd centuries B.C., such as the fall of Tyre and the liberation from the Babylonian captivity, while the latter contains prophecies about the attacks on Jerusalem by the nations and its protection and final victory by the Lord's power.

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Japanese:

旧約聖書の一書。捕囚期後期の 12小預言書の一書。まったく無関係な2つの部分より成る。前半 (1～8章) はゼカリアの預言の集成であり，9章以下は別の預言者 (9～11章を第2ゼカリヤ，12～14章を第3ゼカリヤと呼ぶ) によるものである。バビロニアの捕囚から帰還したあとのエルサレムは，困難な情勢が続き神殿の再建の事業は中断されていた。ゼカリアにのぞんだ主の言葉と8つの幻に導かれて，彼は万軍の主の家である神殿の再建にこそイスラエルの民の平和と繁栄の種がある，すなわち民が主へと帰り，主の家がエルサレムのなかに建てられたとき，主はシオンへ帰りエルサレムは忠信な町と呼ばれ，町々はよい物で満ちると説いて，事業の再開に大きく貢献した。後半は2つの託宣を含む。最初のものには，ツロの滅亡やバビロニアの捕囚からの解放など前4世紀末頃から前3世紀初めの出来事についての預言が，後者には諸国民のエルサレムへの攻撃と主の力によってエルサレムが守られ，最後の勝利が訪れることについての預言が含まれている。

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