2 Chronicles 18:10

made him horns of iron For a similar use of symbolic action by a prophet cp. Jeremiah 27:2 (also 2 Chronicles 28:10). For the meaning of the phrase cp. Amos 6:13, "Have we not taken to us horns?" i.e. "Have we not acquired military power?"

thou shalt push Cp. Deuteronomy 33:17. So Rameses II is described in an Egyptian psalm as "the strong bull against the Ethiopians; his horn pushes them." (Erman, Ancient Egypt, Eng. Tr., p. 57.)

Syria R.V. the Syrians.