And I said unto the angel that talked with me
( Zechariah
1:9 Zechariah
1:13 Zechariah
1:14 ) : What [be] these?
that is, who do these horns signify? and what or whom do they
represent? and he answered me, These [are] the horns which
have scattered
Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem;
which may design the distresses, vexations, and captivities of
the people of Israel by their enemies, as by the Moabites,
Ammonites in the times of the judges; and the captivity of the
ten tribes of Israel by Shalmaneser; and of the two tribes of
Benjamin and Judah, and of the destruction of Jerusalem, by
Nebuchadnezzar; when they were ventilated or fanned, as the word
F24 signifies, and so scattered abroad;
see ( Jeremiah
6:11 ) ( 15:7 ) and
also their troubles in the times of the Medes and Persians, under
Cambyses, until this second year of Darius; and may likewise have
reference prophetically to their after troubles and captivity by
the Romans; and to Rome Pagan, which persecuted and scattered the
churches of Christ and people of God in the several parts of the
world; and the antichristian states, the persecutors of the same.