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Zechariah 1:20

Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

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ASV

And Jehovah showed me four smiths.

KJV

And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיַּרְאֵ֣נִיvai.yar.'E.niand he showed meH7200 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אַרְבָּעָ֖ה'ar.ba.'AhfourH702 →
חָרָשִֽׁים׃cha.ra.ShimcraftsmenH2796 →

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Zechariah 10:3–5“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 12:2–6“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.Zechariah 9:12–16Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.Obadiah 1:21The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.Micah 5:5–6And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.Nehemiah 9:27So 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.1 Samuel 12:11So 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.Isaiah 54:15–17If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.Judges 11:18Then 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.Judges 11:16But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.Deuteronomy 33:25May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”Micah 5:8–9Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.2 Kings 8:10Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”Amos 7:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.Jeremiah 24:1After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

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Zechariah's Vision of Four Chariots — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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