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Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
Zechariah 6:1 · World English Bible
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  • KJV And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
  • BSB And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.
  • NKJV Then I turned and raised my eyes and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
  • NASB Now I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, four chariots were going out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains.
  • NLT Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between two bronze mountains.

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Quick answer

Zechariah's eighth and final vision: four chariots emerging between two bronze mountains. They depict God's powerful agents going out into all the earth.

Overview

The four chariots recall the patrolling horses of the first vision, framing the series with God's sovereign oversight of the nations. The bronze mountains suggest the firm, immovable place from which God's judgments proceed. This opening of the last vision affirms that the Lord of all the earth governs world history, working His purposes toward the kingdom of His Messiah.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
  • Zech 6:5The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
  • Zech 1:18–19I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
  • Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
  • Dan 8:22As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
  • Zech 5:1Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
  • Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
  • Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Dan 7:3–7Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
  • Prov 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
  • Dan 4:15Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:
  • Isa 14:26–27This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
  • Dan 2:38–40and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.
  • Ps 33:11The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
  • Isa 43:13Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
  • 1 Sam 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
  • Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
  • Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
  • Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

The Branch who is both priest and king, the shepherd struck and the flock scattered, the king coming humble on a donkey, the one they pierced, the fountain opened for sin — Zechariah is dense with Christ.

How Zechariah 6:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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