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Zechariah 1:20
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh reveals a vision to the prophet Zechariah immediately after an angel identifies horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
The words — חָרָשִׁים (cha.ra.shim) = craftsmen and אַרְבָּעָה ('ar.ba'ah) = four.
The thread — Divine action against scattering powers reappears in Zechariah 10:3 and Zechariah 12:2.
Why it lands — The text records God's direct intervention against forces of dispersion, requiring the reader to acknowledge that scattering is met with purposeful divine response.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.
Cross-references
- Zechariah 10:3 “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts attends to His flock, the house of Judah; He will make them like His royal steed in battle.
- Zechariah 9:12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
- Zechariah 12:2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.
- Deuteronomy 33:25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
- Judges 11:16 But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
- Judges 11:18 Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.
- 1 Samuel 12:11 So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
- Nehemiah 9:27 So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
- Isaiah 54:15 If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.
- Obadiah 1:21 The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.