Zechariah 1:19
I said to the messenger who was talking with me, “What are these?” He answered, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
18Now I looked up and saw four horns.
20Then the Lord showed me four smiths.
Cross References
Habakkuk 3:14You pierced his head with his spears, as his champions storm out to scatter us, as they rejoice to devour the poor secretly.
Zechariah 1:21I said, “What are these coming to do?” He answered, “The horns scattered Judah, so that no one dared lift their head. But the smiths have come to terrify them, to crush the horns of the nations which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”
Zechariah 4:11Again I asked, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the candlestick and on its left side?”
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:19-21
Comfort for Jerusalem. ( b. c. 520.) 18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And the Lord shewed me four carpenters. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles,… Read the whole commentary →