Next the Lord showed me four blacksmiths.

In King Darius’ fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah.

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

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

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

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: