Zechariah 1:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The angel who was sent to explain was there, and so I asked, “What do these mean?” His answer was, “These horns are the nations that scattered the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem, and took away their freedom.” Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths, and I asked, “What are they going to do?” He replied, “They are going to terrify and crush those horns.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:11

Zedekiah son of Chenaanah was one of the prophets. He had made some horns out of iron and shouted, “Ahab, the LORD says you will attack the Syrians like a bull with iron horns and wipe them out!”

Ezra 4:1

The enemies of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people had come back to rebuild the temple of the LORD God of Israel.

Ezra 4:4

Then the neighbouring people began to do everything possible to frighten the Jews and to make them stop building.

Ezra 4:7

Later, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and their advisers got together and wrote a letter to Artaxerxes when he was king of Persia. It was written in Aramaic and had to be translated.

Ezra 5:3

Governor Tattenai of Western Province and his assistant Shethar Bozenai got together with some of their officials. Then they went to Jerusalem and said to the people, “Who told you to rebuild this temple?

Psalm 75:4

You tell every boaster, “Stop boasting!” And to the wicked you say, “Don't boast of your power!

Psalm 75:5

Stop boasting! Stop telling me how great you are.”

Jeremiah 48:25

My decision is final— your army will be crushed, and your power broken.

Daniel 12:7

The angel then raised both hands towards heaven and said, “In the name of the God who lives for ever, I solemnly promise that it will be a time, two times, and half a time. Everything will be over, when the suffering of God's holy people comes to an end.”

Daniel 7:16

So I asked one of those standing there, and he explained,

Amos 6:13

You celebrate the defeat of Lo-Debar and Karnaim, and you boast by saying, “We did it on our own.”

Habakkuk 3:14

His troops had come like a storm, hoping to scatter us and glad to gobble us up. To them we were refugees in hiding— but you smashed their heads with their own weapons.

Zechariah 1:18

Next, I saw four animal horns.

Zechariah 1:9

An angel was there to explain things to me, and I asked, “Sir, who are these riders?” “I'll tell you,” the angel answered.

Zechariah 2:2

and I asked, “Where are you going?” “To measure Jerusalem,” was the answer. “To find out how wide and long it is.”

Zechariah 8:14

When your ancestors made me angry, I decided to punish you with disasters, and I didn't hold back.