Discovery BoxZechariah 4:7 
Context4:7 “What are you, you great mountain? 1 Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple 2 capstone with shoutings of ‘Grace! Grace!’ 3 because of this.”
Zechariah 9:5
Context9:5 Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. 4 Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.
1 sn In context, the great mountain here must be viewed as a metaphor for the enormous task of rebuilding the temple and establishing the messianic kingdom (cf. TEV “Obstacles as great as mountains”).
2 tn The word “temple” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent (cf. NLT “final stone of the Temple”).
3 sn Grace is a fitting response to the idea that it was “not by strength and not by power” but by God’s gracious Spirit that the work could be done (cf. v. 6).
4 tn The present translation presupposes a Hiphil perfect of יָבֵשׁ (yavesh, “be dry”; cf. NRSV “are withered”) rather than the usually accepted Hiphil of בּוֹשׁ (bosh, “be ashamed”; cf. KJV, ASV), a sense that is less suitable with the removal of hope.
