SPECIAL TOPIC: ANIMAL HORNS

Animal horns are symbolic of

1. power

   1. military - 2 Chr. 18:10; Ps. 92:10; Micah 4:13

   2. human strength - 1 Sam. 2:1; 1 Kgs. 22:11; 1 Chr. 25:5; Job 16:15; Ps. 75:4,5,10; Ezek. 34:21

   3. divine strength - 2 Sam. 22:3; Ps. 18:2; 112:10; 148:14; Jer. 48:25; Hab. 3:4

2. nations

   1. nations - Deut. 33:17; Ps. 89:17

   2. kings - 1 Sam. 2:10; Ps. 89:24

   3. both - Dan. 8:3,5,6,7,8,9,20,21; Zech. 1:18,19,21

3. Messiah - 1 Sam. 2:10; Ps. 132:17; Ezek. 29:21; Luke 1:69

4. The horns on the incense and sacrificial altars were symbolic of power.

SPECIAL TOPIC: ALTAR OF INCENSE

SPECIAL TOPIC: ALTAR OF SACRIFICE

There is a good brief discussion on the use of "four" in biblical imagery in D. Brent Sandy, Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic, pp. 115-116.

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