- Source: Four Horns and Four Craftsmen
The four" target="_blank">four horns (Hebrew: ארבע קרנות ’arba‘ qərānōṯ) and four" target="_blank">four craftsmen (ארבעה חרשים ’arbā‘āh ḥārāšîm, also translated "engravers" or "artisans") are a vision found in Book of Zechariah, in Zechariah 1:21 in traditional English texts. In Hebrew texts 1:18-21 is numbered 2:1-4. The vision precedes the vision of A Man With a Measuring Line.
Hebrew Bible text
1 I looked up, and I saw four" target="_blank">four horns. 2 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are those?” “Those,” he replied, “are the horns that tossed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 3 Then GOD showed me four" target="_blank">four smiths. 4 “What are they coming to do?” I asked. The angel replied: “Those are the horns that tossed Judah, so that nobody at all could raise their head; and these [smiths] have come to throw them into a panic, to hew down the horns of the nations that raise a horn against the land of Judah, to toss it.”
In the Talmud
The four" target="_blank">four craftsmen are discussed in Babylonian Talmud Suk. 52b. Rav Hana bar Bizna attributed to Rav Simeon Hasida the identification of these four" target="_blank">four craftsmen as Messiah ben David, Messiah ben Joseph, Elijah, and the Righteous Priest. However David Kimhi interpreted the four" target="_blank">four craftsmen as four" target="_blank">four kingdoms.
In later interpretation
The imagery of craftsmen is generally considered as "smiths", able to master the four" target="_blank">four iron horns, as symbolizing nations used as instruments of divine power for the destruction of Israel's enemies.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Four Horns and Four Craftsmen
- Book of Zechariah
- Messiah
- Jewish eschatology
- Zechariah 1
- V. F. Červený & Synové
- Horned deity
- History of the trumpet
- Kleinaspergle
- Scissor grinder
