Zechariah 1:19 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem."

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1 Kings 22:11
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus said the LORD, With these shall you push the Syrians, until you have consumed them.

Psalm 75:4
I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Psalm 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Jeremiah 48:25
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, said the LORD.

Daniel 7:16
I came near to one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

Amos 6:13
You which rejoice in a thing of nothing, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

Zechariah 1:9
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.

Zechariah 1:18
Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

Zechariah 1:21
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:18-21 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 safety of every good man, and the success of every good work; but the Lord showed him four workmen empowered to cut off these horns. With an eye of sense we see the power of the enemies of the church; look which way we will, the world shows us that; but it is only with an eye of faith that we see it safe. The Lord shows us that. When God has work to do, he will raise up some to do it, and others to defend it, and to protect those employed in doing it. What cause there is to look up in love and praise to the holy and eternal Spirit, who has the same care over the present and eternal interests of believers, by the holy word bringing the church to know the wonderful things of salvation!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. Judah, Israel—Though some of the ten tribes of Israel returned with Judah from Babylon, the full return of the former, as of the latter, is here foretold and must be yet future.