he: i.e. the angel,
these: i.e. these four smiths (or it may denote the supernatural princes over the kingdoms). They repre sent the Divine agencies raised up, by which Jehovah will overthrow them.
fray. Short for affray-to terrify; hence English, afraid and affright. So the Hebrew harad. terrify. put in consternation (Hebrew. Hiphil, causative). Compare Zephaniah 3:13.
them: i.e. the kingdoms represented by the horns.
Gentiles. nations.
Verse Zechariah 1:21. _THESE ARE COME TO FRAY THEM_] To break, pound, and reduce them to powder. _Fray_, from the French, _frayer_, to _rub_. חרשים charashim signifies either _carpenters_ or _smiths_...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS 1. THE NIGHT VISIONS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Zechariah 1:1) _ 2. The first night vision (Zechariah 1:7) 3. The second night vision (Zechariah 1:18)...
The four horns which have scattered Judah and Jerusalem (Israel should probably be omitted) represent the whole world arrayed against Judah, and are perhaps iron horns like those made by Zedekiah (1 K...
_he spake_ i.e. the interpreting angel. _have scattered_ Rather, SCATTERED, R.V. _to fray them_ Either the wild animals bearing the horns, or more probably the nations symbolised by them, are here s...
CHAPTER XXVIII A VISION OF FOUR HORNS AND SMITHS Zechariah 1:18-21 RV. And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns. And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these? And...
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. The power of the Jews' foes shall be dissipated. Verse 18. BEHOLD, FOUR HORNS. To a pastoral people like the Jews the horns of the stron...
LESSONS FROM THE PAST. THE FIRST AND SECOND VISIONS 1-6. The Prophet's message. He calls the people to repentance. 8-17. The First Vision: The Divine Messengers ever watching over the affairs of the...
NO MAN DID LIFT UP HIS HEAD] In the events culminating in the captivity, the people were utterly crushed. FRAY] an obsolete word meaning 'terrify': cp. Deuteronomy 28:26. The root is seen in 'afraid,'...
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ‘The *prophet (Zechariah) said that these events would happen. And these events did happen.’ (Matthew 21:4) (A *prophet tells people what G...
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in Zechariah 1:7 to...
Many commentators suppose that this vision refers to the future as well as the past, and that in it the objects are combined together so as to form one complete picture, without any regard to the time...
_[Zechariah 2:4]_ וָ אֹמַ֕ר מָ֛ה אֵ֥לֶּה בָאִ֖ים...
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
THE REDEMPTION OF JERUSALEM Zechariah 1:18-21; Zechariah 2:1-13 The work of Temple-building had ceased for fifteen years and the new resolve to arise and build might meet with a similar fate. But the...
About a month after Haggai's second message, in which he had encouraged the people who were in danger of being disheartened by the memory of the past, Zechariah uttered his first prophetic word. He ga...
_Every. Hebrew, "at pleasure; none shall lift," &c. These kingdoms shall no longer prove formidable. (Calmet) --- Fray, or "terrify." Septuagint, "to sharpen them in their hands. The horns are nations...
"And the LORD showed 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 a...
REFLECTIONS Reader! let us both pause over this first chapter of the Prophet:, and beg for grace to bless God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, for the grace manifested by each, and by...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
And who are these smiths? They are also horns; for they all wish to destroy as much as they can the Church; but God does not permit them; on the contrary he excites them to mutual wars to destroy one...
The Spirit of God begins with an exhortation, founded on the proofs that the history of the people supplied of the manner in which the word of the prophets had taken hold of them. Jehovah's displeasur...
THEN SAID I, WHAT COME THESE TO DO?.... That is, these four carpenters; for, being artificers or workmen, as the Targum renders the word, the prophet concluded there was some work for them to do: AND...
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...
_Then, behold, four horns_ Horns often signify the power of princes or people, the metaphor being taken from those cattle whose strength lies in their horns. The horns here mentioned denote the powers...
THE VISION OF THE FOUR HORNS AND THE FOUR SMITHS...
Then said I, What come these to do? What was the object in introducing them into the picture?. AND HE SPAKE, SAYING, THESE ARE THE HORNS WHICH HAVE SCATTERED JUDAH, SO THAT NO MAN DID LIFT UP HIS HEAD...
GOD'S CALL TO RETURN TO HIM (vv. 1-6) Zechariah's name means "Jehovah remembers." He was the son of Berechiah ("Jehovah blesses") who was the son of Iddo ("the appointed time"). Israel had long been...
18-21 The enemies of the church threaten to cut off the name of Israel. They are horns, emblems of power, strength, and violence. The prophet saw them so formidable that he began to despair of the sa...
THEN, so soon as I could propose the question, immediately upon sight of the carpenters, SAID I, Zechariah, WHAT COME THESE TO DO? he saw they were men, inquires not who they were, but what was their...
Zechariah 1:21 said H559 (H8799) coming H935 (H8802) do H6213 (H8800) said H559 (H8799)...
THE SECOND VISION. THE VISION OF THE HORNS AND THE SMITHS (ZECHARIAH 1:18). God will now pare back the horns that have been directed at Jerusalem. The message is that although Israel and Judah have b...
Zechariah 1:18 I. As physical emblems of force, horns are in the prophetic visions representative of earthly powers or kingdoms. The number four, in its prophetic acceptation, is the signature of the...
CONTENTS: Zechariah's symbolic visions, warning of Jehovah's dispreasure with the nations. CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: The judgments of God which those who went before us were un...
Zechariah 1:1. _Zechariah;_ that is, the memory of God; a name which might seem prophetic, for the Lord remembered his people while yet in Babylon. He was contemporary with Haggai, and acted in concer...
_Behold four horns _ THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH’S ENEMIES Three things there are which this age of ours hath brought forth: malignant enemies, special instruments of their ruin, and great endeavours...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 1:1 Oracles and Visions. Zechariah’s sequence of visions in Zechariah 1:7 is interrupted by an oracle of restoration ...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 1:18 The second vision describes FOUR HORNS. “Four” symbolizes all the world powers responsible for exiling JUDAH, ISRAEL, AND JERUSALEM. These nations had s
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 1:16. RETURNED] to Jerusalem, from whom God had withdrawn. LINE] All obstacles removed, the temple completed, and the whole city shall be regular in shape, and exact in its...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-6:15 Part I. A SERIES OF EIGHT VISIONS, AND A SYMBOLICAL ACTION. ZECHARIAH 1:1 § 1. _Title of the book, and author. _THE EIGHTH MONTH. This was called Bul before the Captivit
Shall we tonight now get into our study in the book of Zechariah beginning with chapter 1. Now if you remember when we studied the book of Haggai last week, Haggai was dating his prophesies in the sec...
Daniel 12:7; Lamentations 2:17; Psalms 75:4; Psalms 75:5; Zechariah
THE MAN AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES Zechariah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The visions have to do primarily with God's dealings with His chosen people Israel. They will, however, be full of lessons for the sai...
He — Christ. These — He first points to the four horns. But these — These carpenters are emblems of those instruments God will employ in breaking those destroyers. Who lift up — Who employed their arm...