Zechariah 1:20
What does Zechariah 1:20 mean?
A plain-English look at Zechariah 1:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Jehovah showed me four smiths.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Jehovah showed me four smiths.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Jehovah doth shew me four artisans.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the Lord shewed me four smiths.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Jehovah shewed me four craftsmen.
Context
v.19And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
v.20This passage
v.21Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 11:18
Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
- Zechariah 12:2
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
- Judges 11:16
but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
- Micah 5:8
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
- Isaiah 54:15
Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of thee.
- Deuteronomy 33:25
Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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