What is happening here?
Zechariah opens by calling the returned community to learn from their fathers and return unto the LORD. The first night visions then begin: a horseman among the myrtle trees reports that the earth is at rest while Jerusalem still suffers, and the LORD answers with jealous compassion and promised rebuilding. A second vision shows four horns that scattered Judah and four craftsmen raised to cast them down.
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