Next the Lord showed me four blacksmiths.

(2:1) Once again I looked and this time I saw four horns.

Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze.

“You there! Flee from the northland!” says the Lord, “for like the four winds of heaven I have scattered you,” says the Lord.

The messenger replied, “These are the four spirits of heaven that have been presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in Darius’ second year, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:

I asked, “What are these going to do?” He answered, “These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah’s enemies and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people.”