Zechariah 1:20
New International Version
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

New Living Translation
Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.

English Standard Version
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

King James Bible
And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.

New King James Version
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

NASB 1995
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

NASB 1977
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.

Amplified Bible
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Christian Standard Bible
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah showed me four smiths.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And LORD JEHOVAH showed me four Carpenters

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Lord shewed me four artificers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord shewed me four smiths.

English Revised Version
And the LORD shewed me four smiths.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Good News Translation
Then the LORD showed me four workers with hammers.

International Standard Version
Then the LORD showed me four artisans.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Literal Standard Version
And YHWH shows me four artisans.

Majority Standard Bible
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

New American Bible
Then the LORD showed me four workmen.

NET Bible
Next the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD showed me four carpenters.

World English Bible
Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah doth shew me four artisans.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Vision of the Horns
19So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 20Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. 21“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”…

Cross References
Isaiah 44:12
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

Isaiah 54:16
Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.


Treasury of Scripture

And the LORD showed me four carpenters.

four.

Zechariah 9:12-16
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; …

Zechariah 10:3-5
Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle…

Zechariah 12:2-6
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem…

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Zechariah 1
1. Zechariah exhorts to repentance.
7. The vision of the horses.
12. At the prayer of the angel comfortable promises are made to Jerusalem.
18. The vision of the four horns and the four carpenters.














Verse 20. - Four carpenters; craftsmen; Revised Version, smiths, in which case "the horns" would be made of iron. The word is applied to workers in wood, stone, and metal; therefore an ambiguous rendering seems most suitable here. LXX., τέκτονας; Vulgate, fabros. They represent the human agencies employed by God to overthrow the powers hostile to the Church. Their number is the same as that of the "horns," thus showing their adequacy for the work which they have to execute. It is quite unnecessary to attempt to identify the four "craftsmen." Some take them to be Zerubbabel, Joshua, Ezra, and Nehemiah; or Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Alexander the Great; or the four evangelists; or generally, angels. We shall be safer if we look upon them merely as God's instruments and servants without further identification.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then the LORD
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

showed
וַיַּרְאֵ֣נִי (way·yar·’ê·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

me four
אַרְבָּעָ֖ה (’ar·bā·‘āh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 702: Four

craftsmen.
חָרָשִֽׁים׃ (ḥā·rā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2796: A fabricator, any material


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