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Zechariah 10:4

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10:4From him will come the cornerstone,4 the wall peg,5 the battle bow, and every ruler.6

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Footnotes

  1. 4 On the NT use of the image of the cornerstone, see Luke 20:17; Eph 2:20; 1 Pet 2:6.
  2. 5 The metaphor of the wall peg (Heb. יָתֵד, yated), together with the others in this list, describes the remarkable change that will take place at the inauguration of God’s eschatological kingdom. Israel, formerly sheep-like, will be turned into a mighty warhorse. The peg refers to a wall hook (although frequently translated “tent peg,” but cf. “nail”; 1:419) from which tools and weapons were suspended, but figuratively also to the promise of God upon which all of Israel’s hopes were hung (cf. Isa 22:15–25; Ezra 9:8).
  3. 6 This is not the usual word to describe a king of Israel or Judah (such as מֶלֶךְ, melekh, or נָשִׂיא, nasi’), but נוֹגֵשׂ, noges, “dictator” (cf. “oppressor”). The author is asserting by this choice of wording that in the messianic age God’s rule will be by force.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

From him shall come the cornerstone,

from him the tent peg,

from him the battle bow,

from him every ruler—all of them together.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

From Judah will come the cornerstone,

from him the tent peg,

from him the battle bow,

from him every ruler.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The cornerstone will come from Judah.

The tent peg will come from them

and also the battle bow and every ruler.

Together

NLTNew Living Translation

From Judah will come the cornerstone,

the tent peg,

the bow for battle,

and all the rulers.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

From them the cornerstone will go out,

from them the tent peg,

from them the battle bow,

from them every ruler,

all together.

KJV 1900King James Version

Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail,

Out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.