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Four Horns and Four Blacksmiths

18 [a]Then I looked up and saw four animal horns. 19 “What are these?” I asked the angel who was talking with me.

He replied, “These horns represent the nations that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

20 Then the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. 21 “What are these men coming to do?” I asked.

The angel replied, “These four horns—these nations—scattered and humbled Judah. Now these blacksmiths have come to terrify those nations and throw them down and destroy them.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:18 Verses 1:18-21 are numbered 2:1-4 in Hebrew text.

Second night vision

18 [a] Then I looked up and saw four horns.
19 I said to the messenger speaking with me,
        “What are these?”
He said to me,
        “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20 Then the Lord showed me four metalworkers.
21 I said,
    “What are they coming to do?”
And he said,
    “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head.
    The metalworkers have come to terrify them and to destroy the horns of the nations, those who were attacking the land of Judah with[b] their horns to scatter it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:18 2:1 in Heb
  2. Zechariah 1:21 Or those lifting their horns toward Judah