Zaharija 1:20

Croatian Bible

span data-lang="hrv" data-trans="cro" data-ref="zec.1.1" class="versetxt"> Osmoga mjeseca druge godine Darijeve dođe riječ Jahvina proroku Zahariji, sinu Berekjinu, sinu Idonovu. "Jahve se teško razgnjevio na oce vaše! Zatim im reci: 'Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: Vratite se meni, i ja ću se vratiti vama' - riječ je Jahve nad Vojskama. 'Ne budite poput svojih otaca koje su pozivali negdašnji proroci.' Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: 'Vratite se sa zlih putova svojih i od zlih djela. Ali oni nisu slušali ni pazili na mene' - govori Jahve. Gdje su sad oci vaši? Zar će dovijeka živjeti proroci? Ali moje riječi i odredbe, koje sam naložio slugama svojim prorocima, nisu li stigle vaše oce? Oni se obratiše i priznaše: 'Jahve nad Vojskama učinio je s nama kako bijaše namislio učiniti prema našim putovima i našim djelima.'" Dvadeset i četvrtog dana, jedanaestoga mjeseca, a to je mjesec Šebat, druge godine Darijeve, dođe riječ Jahvina proroku Zahariji, sinu Berekjinu, sinu Idonovu. Imao sam noću viđenje. Gle, na riđanu čovjek jaše među mirtama koje imaju duboko korijenje, a iza njega konji riđi, smeđi i bijeli. Upitah: "Koji su ovi, gospodaru?" Anđeo koji je sa mnom govorio reče mi: "Ja ću ti pokazati koji su." Čovjek koji stajaše među mirtama odgovori: "Ovo su oni koje je poslao Jahve da obilaze zemlju." Oni se obratiše anđelu Jahvinu, koji stajaše među mirtama, i kazaše: "Obišli smo zemlju, i gle: sva zemlja počiva i miruje." Tada progovori anđeo Jahvin i reče: "Jahve nad Vojskama, kada ćeš se već jednom smilovati Jeruzalemu i gradovima judejskim na koje se već sedamdeset godina ljuto srdiš?" A Jahve anđelu koji je govorio sa mnom odgovori utješnim riječima. I anđeo koji je govorio sa mnom reče mi: "Objavi ovo: 'Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: Ljubavlju ljubomornom gorim za Jeruzalem i za Sion, a velikim gnjevom plamtim na ohole narode, jer kad se ono malo rasrdih, oni prijeđoše mjeru.' Zato ovako govori Jahve: 'Vraćam se Jeruzalemu s milosrđem; opet će u njemu sagraditi Dom moj' - riječ je Jahve nad Vojskama - 'i opet će se u Jeruzalemu protezati uže mjeračko.' I ovo poruči: 'Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: Moji će se gradovi opet prelijevati obiljem, i Jahve će utješiti Sion, izabrati Jeruzalem.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

four: Zechariah 9:12-16, Zechariah 10:3-5, Zechariah 12:2-6, Deuteronomy 33:25, Judges 11:16, Judges 11:18, 1 Samuel 12:11, Nehemiah 9:27, Isaiah 54:15-17, Obadiah 1:21, Micah 5:5, Micah 5:6, Micah 5:8, Micah 5:9

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:10 - the Lord Psalms 75:10 - All the horns Jeremiah 24:1 - Lord Amos 7:1 - showed Zechariah 10:4 - of him came forth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord showed me four carpenters. To saw and cut in pieces the four horns; or rather "four blacksmiths" y; these horns were horns of iron; so the word is rendered a "smith" in 1 Samuel 13:19 and indeed it signifies both a worker in wood and a worker in iron; and who are sometimes distinguished by what they work in, whether wood or iron; see Isaiah 44:12. The Jews say z these four carpenters are Messiah ben David, Messiah ben Ephraim, Elijah, and the priest of righteousness; or, as elsewhere a, Elijah, the King Messiah, Melchizedek, and he that was anointed for war; though Kimchi much better interprets them of the kings, the princes above, who preside over kingdoms, that is, the angels; and so Jerom and Theodoret; who have been sometimes employed in the destruction of the enemies of God's people, or in preventing them doing the mischief they otherwise would; and even the several monarchies themselves have been the means of destroying each other; so the Babylonians were destroyed by the Medes and Persians; the Persians by the Grecians; the Grecians by the Romans; and the Romans by the Goths, Hunns, Vandals, c. in the western part of the empire and by the Saracens and Turks in the eastern part of it: and they may be applied to the apostles of Christ, who were chiefly mechanics, mean and illiterate persons, yet workmen in the Gospel, that need not to be ashamed; and who were sent by Christ into the four parts of the world, to spread his Gospel, set up his interest, and pull down the kingdom of Satan: and since the Jews make the Messiah himself one of these carpenters, they have no reason to upbraid or be offended at Jesus our Messiah being a carpenter, and a carpenter's son, as in

Matthew 13:55 and Kimchi owns that their ancient Rabbins explain this verse of the days of the Messiah.

y חרשים "fabros ferrarios", Pembellus, Sanctius, Burkius. z T. Bab. Succa, fol. 52. 2. a Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 11. 4. Vid. Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 14. fol. 111. 4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 1:20. Four carpenters. — Four other powers, who should defeat the powers intended by the horns. These are the same as the four chariots mentioned Zechariah 6:1-3; Zechariah 6:6-7. 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.