Zechariah 1:19
I spoke to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
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In Context
18Then I lifted up my eyes and saw four horns!
20Then Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
Cross References
Ezra 4:4So the people of the land made the Judeans' hands weak; they made the Judeans afraid to build.
Ezra 5:3Then Tattenai the governor of the Province Beyond the River, Shethar-Bozenai, and his associates came and said to them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house and complete these walls?”
Daniel 12:7I heard the man clothed in linen, who was upstream along the river—he raised his right hand and his left hand to heaven and swore by the one who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.
Habakkuk 3:14You have pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows since they came like a storm to scatter us, 1 their gloating was like one who devours the poor in a hiding place. 1
Zechariah 1:21I said, “What are these people coming to do?” He answered, and said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no man would lift up his head. But the blacksmiths have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up a horn against the land of Judah to scatter her.”
Zechariah 4:11Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees that stand on the left and the right of the lampstand?”
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 →