Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zechariah 1:7-21
THE SECOND VISION: THE FOUR HORNS AND THE FOUR SMITHS{Zechariah 2:1-4}The Second Vision supplies what is lacking in the First, the destruction of the tyrants who have oppressed Israel. The prophet sees four horns, which, he is told by his interpreting angel, are the powers that have scattered Judah. The many attempts to identify these with four heathen nations are ingenious but futile. "Four horns were seen as representing the totality of Israel’s enemies-her enemies from all quarters." And to... read more
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zechariah 1:7-17
3. EXPOSITION OF THE SEVERAL VISIONSFor all the Visions there is one date, "in the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius." that is, January or February, 519; and one Divine impulse, "the Word of Jehovah came to the prophet Zekharyah, son of Berekhyahu, son of Iddo, as follows."THE FIRST VISION: THE ANGEL-HORSEMENZechariah 1:7-17The seventy years which Jeremiah had fixed for the duration of the Babylonian servitude were drawing to a close. Four... read more