Zechariah 6:1
ContextNETBible | Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze. 1 |
XREF | 1Sa 2:8; Job 34:29; Ps 33:11; Ps 36:6; Pr 21:30; Isa 14:26,27; Isa 43:13; Isa 46:10,11; Da 2:38-40; Da 4:15,35; Da 7:3-7; Da 8:22; Zec 1:18,19; Zec 5:1; Ac 4:28; Eph 1:11; Eph 3:11 |
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 |