Zechariah 10:4

came

The tense is future: "From him Judah shall be the cornerstone (Exodus 17:6).

( See Scofield) - (1 Peter 2:8).

from him the nail (Isaiah 22:23); (Isaiah 22:24) from him the battle-bow," etc. The whole scene is of the events which group about the deliverance of the Jews in Palestine in the time of the northern invasion under the "Beast"; (Daniel 7:8); (Revelation 19:20) and "Armageddon,"; (Revelation 16:14); (Revelation 19:17).

The final deliverance is wholly effected by the return of the Lord (Revelation 19:11); but previously He strengthens the hard-pressed Israelites; (Micah 4:13); (Zechariah 9:13); (Zechariah 10:5); (Zechariah 12:2); (Zechariah 14:14).

That there may have been a precursive fulfilment in the Maccabean victories can neither be affirmed nor denied from Scripture.