Zechariah 1:19

“And I said unto the angel that talked with me, etc.] (<380109>Zechariah 1:9,13,14): 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, etc. 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 wordf22 signifies, and so scattered abroad; (see…”

“Judah, Israel--Though some of the ten tribes of Israel returned with Judah from Babylon, the full return of the former, as of the latter, is here foretold and must be yet future.”

“These are the horns which have scattered - o “The four horns which scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem, are four nations, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Romans; as the Lord, on the prophet’s enquiry, explains here, and Daniel unfolds most fully Daniel 2:0; who in the vision of the image with golden head, silver breast, belly and thighs of brass, feet of iron and clay, explained it of these four nations, and again in another vision of four beasts Daniel 7:0, lion, bear, leopard and another unnamed dreadful beast, he pointed out the same nations under another figure. But that the Medes and Persians, after the victory of Cyrus, were one kingdom, no one will doubt, who reads…”

“The horns - Powers, states, and kingdoms, which have from all sides pushed at, broken and tossed my people. Judah - The two tribes. Israel - The ten tribes. Zechariah 1:21”

“What: Zac 1:9, Zac 1:21, Zac 2:2, Zac 4:11-14; Rev 7:13, Rev 7:14 scattered: Zac 1:21, Zac 8:14; Ezr 4:1, Ezr 4:4, Ezr 4:7, Ezr 5:3; Jer 50:17, Jer 50:18; Dan 12:7; Hab 3:14 Zechariah 1:20”