OLD TESTAMENT

Zechariah 1:21

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Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

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Verse 21. Every. Hebrew “at pleasure; none shall lift,” and so forth These kingdoms shall no longer prove formidable. Calmet.—Fray, or “terrify.” Septuagint “to sharpen them in their hands. The horns are nations,” and so forth Bible.

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