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# General Information:
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In verses 14-16, Zechariah describes how Yahweh will rescue Israel from their enemies.
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# will appear to them
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The word "them" refers to God's people. Alternate translation: "will be seen in the sky by his people" or "will come to his people"
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# his arrows will shoot out like lightning!
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The Israelites sometimes thought of lightning bolts as arrows that God shot. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# blow the ram's horn
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People blew into rams' horns to give signals in battle and on other occasions. Here the ram's horn is blown as a military signal.
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# will advance with the storms from Teman
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Team was located to the south of Judah. The Israelites sometimes thought of God as traveling on violent storms coming from the south. Alternate translation: "will march from Teman with the storm winds"
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