Zechariah 6:1
ContextNET © | Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze. 1 |
NIV © | I looked up again—and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze! |
NASB © | Now I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming forth 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. |
MSG © | Once again I looked up--another strange sight! Four chariots charging out from between two mountains. The mountains were bronze. |
BBE © | And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. |
NRSV © | And again I looked up and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. |
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. |
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NET © | Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze. 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “two mountains, and the mountains [were] mountains of bronze.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons. sn Bronze, a hard, almost impenetrable metal, is an apt figure to speak of the obstacles standing in the way of the accomplishment of God’s purposes for the postexilic Jewish community (cf. 4:7). The cleft between the two from which the chariots emerge might be related to the eschatological triumph of the |