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Second Vision: The Horns and the Smiths

18 [a]And I looked up and saw four horns. 19 I asked the angel who spoke with me, “What are those?” And he answered me, “Those are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 20 Then the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. 21 And I asked, “What are they coming to do?” He answered, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no head could be raised, but these have come to terrify them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.18 2.1 in Heb
  2. 1.21 Heb it

Zechariah’s Second Vision

18 [a] And I looked up[b] and I saw, and look, there were four horns! 19 And I said to the angel who was talking with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 20 Then Yahweh showed me four skilled craftsmen, 21 and I asked, “What are these coming to do?” And he answered, saying, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no man[c] lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:18 Zechariah 1:18–2:17 in the English Bible is 2:1–13 in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Zechariah 1:18 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
  3. Zechariah 1:21 Literally “according to the mouth of a man”