Zechariah 6:2
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New International Version (©2011)
The first chariot had red horses, the second black,

New Living Translation (©2007)
The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black horses,

English Standard Version (©2001)
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The first chariot had red horses, the second chariot black horses,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Attached to the first chariot were red horses. Attached to the second chariot were black horses.

NET Bible (©2006)
Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The first chariot had red horses. The second had black horses.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Before the first chariot were red horses; and before the second chariot black horses;

American King James Version
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

American Standard Version
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses.

Darby Bible Translation
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

English Revised Version
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

Webster's Bible Translation
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

World English Bible
In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;

Young's Literal Translation
In the first chariot are red horses, and in the second chariot brown horses,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In the first chariot were red horses,.... If these are to be understood of the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the Gospel, they may be compared to "horses", for bearing the name of Christ, and drawing the chariot of the Gospel; for their strength to labour in the word and doctrine; for their courage in the cause of Christ; and for their swiftness in doing his work; and to "red" ones, for their flaming zeal for the honour of the Redeemer, and their bloody sufferings for his sake: and if of angels, they may be compared to "horses", because strong and swift to do the will of God; and to "red" ones, because they are the executioners of his wrath and vengeance on wicked men: but if by "the chariots" are meant the monarchies, then by these "red horses" must be designed the Babylonians and Chaldeans, so called because their soldiers were clothed in red, and their chariots were like flaming torches; and they were sanguinary, cruel, and bloody in their tempers, and in their actions to the Jews; and were signified by Nebuchadnezzar's head of gold in his image; see Nahum 2:3,

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The symbol is different from that in the first vision. There Zechariah 1:8, they were horses only, with their riders, to go to and fro to enquire; here they are war-chariots with their horses, to execute God's judgments, each in their turn. In the first vision also, there is not the characteristic fourfold division, which reminds of the four world-empires of Daniel Dan. 2; after which, in both prophets, is the mention of the kingdom of Christ. Even if the grisled horses be the same as the speckled of the first vision, the black horses are wanting there, as well as the succession, in which they go forth. The only resemblance is, that there are horses of divers colors, two of which, red and white, are the same. The symbol of the fourth empire, grizzled, strong, remarkably corresponds with the strength and mingled character of the fourth empire in Daniel.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

In the first chariot were red horses - The empire of the Chaldeans, which overthrew the empire of the Assyrians.

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Geneva Study Bible

In the first chariot were {c} red horses; and in the second chariot {d} black horses;

(c) Which signifies the great cruelty and persecution that the Church had endured under different enemies.

(d) Signifying that they had endured great afflictions under the Babylonians.

Wesley's Notes

6:2 Red horses - Perhaps denoting bloody times, Rev 6:4. Black horses - Perhaps a time of mortality, and wasting diseases, Rev 6:5.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. red-implying carnage.

black-representing sorrow; also famine (Re 6:5, 6; compare Zec 1:8).

Zechariah 6:2 Parallel Commentaries
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The Four Chariots
1And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. 2In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; 3And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot spotted and bay horses. …

Revelation 6:4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
Revelation 6:5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
Zechariah 1:8 During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.