Zechariah 1:19

New International Reader's Version

I spoke to the angel who was talking with me. “What are these horns?” I asked. He said, “They are the powerful nations that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:11

Zedekiah was the son of Kenaanah. Zedekiah had made horns out of iron. They looked like animal horns. He announced, “The Lord says, ‘With these horns you will drive back the men of Aram until they are destroyed.’ ”

Ezra 4:1

The people who had returned from Babylon were building a temple to honor the Lord. He is the God of Israel. The enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard about it.

Ezra 4:4

Then the nations around Judah tried to make its people lose hope. They wanted to make them afraid to go on building.

Ezra 4:7

Then Artaxerxes became king of Persia. During his rule, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and their friends wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in the Aramaic language. And it used the Aramaic alphabet.

Ezra 5:3

At that time Tattenai was governor of the land west of the Euphrates River. He and Shethar-Bozenai and their friends went to the Jews. They asked them, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple? Who told you that you could finish it?”

Psalm 75:4

To the proud I say, ‘Don’t brag anymore.’ To sinners I say, ‘Don’t show off your power.

Psalm 75:5

Don’t show it off against me. Don’t talk back to me.’ ”

Jeremiah 48:25

Moab’s power is gone. Its strength is broken,” announces the Lord.

Daniel 12:7

The man raised both hands toward heaven. I heard him make a promise in the name of the God who lives forever. He answered me, “Three and a half years. Then the power of the holy people will finally be broken. And all these things will come true.”

Daniel 7:16

I approached an angel who was standing there. I asked him what all these things really meant. “So he explained to me what everything meant.

Amos 6:13

You are happy because you captured the town of Lo Debar. You say, “We were strong enough to take Karnaim too.”

Habakkuk 3:14

His soldiers rushed out to scatter us. They were laughing at us. They thought they would easily destroy us. They saw us as weak people who were trying to hide. So you wounded Pharaoh’s head with his own spear.

Zechariah 1:18

Then I looked up and saw four animal horns.

Zechariah 1:21

I asked, “What are they coming to do?” He answered, “The horns are the powerful nations that scattered the people of Judah. That made Judah helpless. But these four skilled workers have come to terrify the horns. The workers will destroy the power of those nations. Those nations had used their power to scatter Judah’s people.”

Zechariah 1:9

An angel was talking with me. I asked him, “Sir, what are these?” He answered, “I will show you what they are.”

Zechariah 2:2

“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he answered. “I want to find out how wide and how long it is.”

Zechariah 8:14

The Lord who rules over all says, “Your people of long ago made me angry. So I decided to bring trouble on them. I did not show them any pity.