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Verse 18. _AND BEHOLD FOUR HORNS._] Denoting _four powers_ by which
the Jews had been oppressed; the _Assyrians, Persians, Chaldeans_, and
_Egyptians_. Or these enemies may be termed _four_, in refere...
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AND I LIFTED UP MINE EYES - o. Cyril on Zechariah 2:1 : “Not those
of the body (for such visions are invisible to the eyes of the flesh),
but rather the inner eyes of the heart and mind.” It seems as...
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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)...
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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...
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FOUR HORNS: "horns" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of
Adjunct), App-6, for the Gentile (Zechariah 1:21) powers signified by
thorn....
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_four horns_ The horn is a symbol of honour (1 Samuel 2:1; Job 16:15),
and of power (Jeremiah 48:25; Amos 6:13). Here the latter idea is
prominent. By the fo
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BEHOLD, FOUR HORNS— In this second vision, under the emblem of four
horns, is represented, that God, by such agents as he would appoint,
would quell and bring down all those powers which had risen, or...
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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...
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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...
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1:18 (d-0) In the Hebrew, ch. 2 begins here....
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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...
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FOUR HORNS] Vain efforts have been made to identify these with four
nations or races, who at one time or another were Israel's oppressors,
e.g. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia. A more likely suggestio...
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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...
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_[Zechariah 2:1]_ וָ אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶת ־עֵינַ֖י וָ...
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THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH
Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
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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...
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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...
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Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold (r) four horns.
(r) Which signifies all the enemies of the Church: east, west, north,
and south....
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Four horns,...four smiths. The four horns represent the empires, or
kingdoms, that persecute and oppress the people of God: the four
smiths or carpenters (for faber may signify either) represent those...
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"Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. (19) And
I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he
answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Isra...
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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...
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Now follows another vision, by which God confirms what he had before
testified to his Prophet. He then says, that though enemies should on
every side rise up against the Church and cause it many troub...
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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...
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THEN I LIFTED UP MINE EYES,.... To behold another vision which
follows:
AND SAW, AND BEHOLD FOUR HORNS; either iron ones, such as Zedekiah the
son of Chenaanah made to push the Syrians with, 1 Kings...
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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Ver. 18. _Then I lift up mine eyes, and saw_] That is, I gave good
heed to this second vision also; which was added purposely for
confirmat...
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_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...
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Then, after the first vision had fully come to an end, LIFTED I UP
MINE EYES AND SAW, in a second distinct vision, AND BEHOLD FOUR HORNS,
the common Scriptural symbol of strength....
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THE VISION OF THE FOUR HORNS AND THE FOUR SMITHS...
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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...
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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...
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THEN; after I had seen those things, and heard those comfortable
words, and received commission to publish all the good news I had
heard. I LIFTED UP MINE EYES: he was so intent before, that he looked...
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Zechariah 1:18 raised H5375 (H8799) eyes H5869 looked H7200 (H8799)
four H702 horns H7161
lifted -...
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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...
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HORN
A "horn" is the symbol of a Gentile king (Daniel 7:24); (Revelation
17:12) and the vision is of the four world empires; (Daniel 2:36); ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 ...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:1; 2 Kings 18:9; 2 Kings 25:30; Dan
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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...
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Four horns — Emblems of the enemies of the Jews....