Zechariah 6:2-3
2. red—implying carnage.
black—representing sorrow; also famine (Re 6:5, 6; compare Zec 1:8).3. white—implying joy and victory [CALVIN].
grizzled—piebald. Implying a mixed dispensation, partly prosperity, partly adversity. All four dispensations, though various in character to the Gentile nation, portended alike good to God's people. bay—rather, "strong" or "fleet"; so Vulgate [GESENIUS]. The horses have this epithet, whose part it was to "walk to and fro through the earth" (Zec 6:7). However, the Septuagint and Chaldee agree with English Version in referring the Hebrew to color, not strength.
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