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Zechariah 2:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Zechariah 2:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Then I asked the angel who spoke with me, “What are those?” He answered, “Those are the horns that scattered[a] Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”(A)
3 Then the Lord showed me four workmen.[b] 4 And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And the Lord said, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that none could raise their heads any more;(B) and these have come to terrify them—to cut down the horns of the nations that raised their horns to scatter the land of Judah.”
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- 2:2 Scattered: sent part of the population into exile. This was standard imperial policy initiated in the ancient Near East by the Assyrians for dealing with a conquered state.
- 2:3 Four workmen: four agents of God’s power. The imagery follows that of four horns: the workers cut down, or make ineffectual, the horns, i.e., enemy.
Zechariah 2:2-4
New International Version
Zechariah 2:2-4
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2 I asked, “Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”(A)
3 While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him 4 and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls(B) because of the great number(C) of people and animals in it.(D)
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