And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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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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 Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
- Zech 6:5And the angel told me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth from their station before the Lord of all the earth.
- Zech 1:18–19Then I looked up and saw four horns.
- Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
- Dan 8:22The four horns that replaced the broken one represent four kingdoms that will rise from that nation, but will not have the same power.
- Zech 5:1Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
- Dan 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- Dan 7:3–7Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:
- Prov 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
- Dan 4:15But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.
- Isa 14:26–27This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
- Dan 2:38–40Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
- Ps 33:11The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
- Isa 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- 1 Sam 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
- Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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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.
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