The Second Oracle: The superscription—An Oracle—is printed separately as the heading of chapters 12–14. The first three words of Zechariah 12:1 (massaʾ debar YHWH), An Oracle: This is the word of the LORD, appear in the OT only here and at the beginning of Zechariah 9:1 and Malachi 1:1. This repeated formula links the books of Zechariah and Malachi. (See the introduction to Zechariah and also the additional note to 9:1, above.) This superscription marks off a section that is also bound together internally by its focus on Jerusalem and by the formula “on that day.” This phrase occurs seven times in Zechariah 12, three times in chapter 13, and seven times in chapter 14, but only one other time (9:16) in the whole of part four (chs. 9–14). (The NIV does not translate the second occurrence of …