Zechariah 1:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

he: i.e. the angel,

these: i.e. these four smiths (or it may denote the supernatural princes over the kingdoms). They repre sent the Divine agencies raised up, by which Jehovah will overthrow them.

fray. Short for affray-to terrify; hence English, afraid and affright. So the Hebrew harad. terrify. put in consternation (Hebrew. Hiphil, causative). Compare Zephaniah 3:13.

them: i.e. the kingdoms represented by the horns.

Gentiles. nations.

Zechariah 1:21

21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.