In the eighth month of Darius' second year, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in Darius' second year, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:

Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses,

Then I cut the second staff "Binders" in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.