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Selected Verse: Zechariah 1:20 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Zec 1:20 |
Strong Concordance |
And the LORD [03068] shewed [07200] me four [0702] carpenters [02796]. |
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King James |
And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
four carpenters--or "artificers." The several instrumentalities employed, or to be employed, in crushing the "Gentile" powers which "scattered" Judah, are hereby referred to. For every one of the four horns there was a cleaving "artificer" to beat it down. For every enemy of God's people, God has provided a counteracting power adequate to destroy it. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
And the Lord
The word "charash", translated, "carpenter," is literally, carver, engraver. (Zac 1:21) makes it plain that, whatever the four carvers may be, they are used to "fray," or carve away (Hebrew, charad) in the sense of diminishing, enfeebling, the great Gentile world-powers. They may stand for Jehovah's "four sore judgments," the sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence (Eze 14:21); the four horses of Revelation 6. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Four carpenters - Four other powers, who should defeat the powers intended by the horns. These are the same as the four chariots mentioned Zac 6:1-3, Zac 6:6, Zac 6:7. The first was Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar, who overturned the empire of the Assyrians. The second was Cyrus, who destroyed the empire of the Chaldeans. The third was Alexander the Great, who destroyed the empire of the Persians. And the fourth was Ptolemy, who rendered himself master of Egypt. Some of these had already been cast down; the rest were to follow. Calmet gives this interpretation, and vindicates it at length. |
21 For thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; How much more when I send [07971] my four [0702] sore [07451] judgments [08201] upon Jerusalem [03389], the sword [02719], and the famine [07458], and the noisome [07451] beast [02416], and the pestilence [01698], to cut off [03772] from it man [0120] and beast [0929]?
21 Then said [0559] I, What come [0935] these to do [06213]? And he spake [0559], saying [0559], These are the horns [07161] which have scattered [02219] Judah [03063], so that [06310] no man [0376] did lift up [05375] his head [07218]: but these are come [0935] to fray [02729] them, to cast out [03034] the horns [07161] of the Gentiles [01471], which lifted up [05375] their horn [07161] over the land [0776] of Judah [03063] to scatter [02219] it.
7 And the bay [0554] went forth [03318], and sought [01245] to go [03212] that they might walk to and fro [01980] through the earth [0776]: and he said [0559], Get you hence [03212], walk to and fro [01980] through the earth [0776]. So they walked to and fro [01980] through the earth [0776].
6 The black [07838] horses [05483] which are therein go forth [03318] into the north [06828] country [0776]; and the white [03836] go forth [03318] after [0310] them; and the grisled [01261] go forth [03318] toward the south [08486] country [0776].
1 And I turned [07725], and lifted up [05375] mine eyes [05869], and looked [07200], and, behold, there came [03318] four [0702] chariots [04818] out [03318] from between two [08147] mountains [02022]; and the mountains [02022] were mountains [02022] of brass [05178].
2 In the first [07223] chariot [04818] were red [0122] horses [05483]; and in the second [08145] chariot [04818] black [07838] horses [05483];
3 And in the third [07992] chariot [04818] white [03836] horses [05483]; and in the fourth [07243] chariot [04818] grisled [01261] and bay [0554] horses [05483].