en_tn/zec/09/14.md

# General Information:

In verses 14-16, Zechariah describes how Yahweh will rescue Israel from their enemies.

# will appear to them

The word "them" refers to God's people. AT: "will be seen in the sky by his people" or "will come to his people"

# his arrows will shoot out like lightning!

The Israelites sometimes thought of lightning bolts as arrows that God shot. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

# blow the trumpet

The trumpets were rams' horns. People blew into them to give signals in battle and on other occasions. Here the trumpet is blown as a military signal.

# will advance with the storms from Teman

Team was located to the south of Judah. The Israelites sometimes thought of God as traveling on violent storms coming from the south. AT: "will march from Teman with the storm winds"