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Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.’ ”
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"
One of them, Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, made some iron horns and proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: With these horns you will gore the Arameans to death!”
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of
iron
Horns are emblems of power and might, and iron ones of greater
strength still; the prophets sometimes made use of visible signs,
to represent the things they prophesied of should come to pass,
see ( Isaiah
20:2Isaiah 20:3 ) (
Jeremiah
27:2 ) , and the same method this prophet took:
and he saith, thus saith the Lord; imitating the true
prophets: with these shall thou push the Syrians until thou hast consumed
them:
Abarbinel thinks he had in view the blessing of Joseph by Moses,
( Deuteronomy 33:17 )
where he is compared to a bullock with horns; and these said to
be the ten thousands of Ephraim, and the thousands of Manasseh;
and Ahab being of the tribe of Joseph, and ruling in Ephraim and
Manasseh, the prophet chose to make use of this emblem for his
encouragement.
