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who talked with me, saying, “What are these, 13 Then he answered me and said, “Do you
my lord?” not know what these are?”
5 Then the angel who talked with me answered And I said, “No, my lord.”
and said to me, “Do you not know what these 14 So he said, “These are the two anointed
are?” ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole
And I said, “No, my lord.” earth.”
6 So he answered and said to me: Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw
5 there a flying scroll.
“This is the word of the LORD to 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?”
Zerubbabel:
So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its
‘Not by might nor by power, length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”
but by My Spirit,’ 3
Says the LORD of hosts. Then he said to me, “This is the curse that
7 ‘Who are you, O great mountain? goes out over the face of the whole earth:
Before Zerubbabel you shall become ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to
this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer
a plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”
With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ” 4 “I will send out the curse,” says the LORD
of hosts;
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying: “It shall enter the house of the thief
And the house of the one who swears
9 “The hands of Zerubbabel falsely by My name.
Have laid the foundation of this temple; It shall remain in the midst of his house
His hands shall also finish it. And consume it, with its timber and
Then you will know stones.”
That the LORD of hosts has sent Me to 5 Then the angel who talked with me came
you.
10 For who has despised the day of small out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and
things? see what this is that goes forth.”
So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a
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For these seven rejoice to see basket that is going forth.”
The plumb line in the hand of He also said, “This is their resemblance
Zerubbabel. 7
They are the eyes of the LORD, throughout the earth: Here is a lead disc lifted
up, and this is a woman sitting inside the bas-
Which scan to and fro throughout the ket”; then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And
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whole earth.”
he thrust her down into the basket, and threw
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11 Then I answered and said to him, “What the lead cover over its mouth. Then I raised my
are these two olive trees—at the right of the eyes and looked, and there were two women,
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lampstand and at its left?” And I further coming with the wind in their wings; for they
answered and said to him, “What are these two had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lift-
olive branches that drip into the receptacles of ed up the basket between earth and heaven.
the two gold pipes from which the golden oil 10 So I said to the angel who talked with me,
drains?” “Where are they carrying the basket?”
11 And he said to me, “To build a house for it
in the land of Shinar; when it is ready, the bas-
ket will be set there on its base.”
Then I turned and raised my eyes and
4:10 the day of small things. Though the
rebuilding of a temple smaller than Solomon’s 6 looked, and behold, four chariots were
may have been discouraging to some (Ezra coming from between two mountains, and the
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3:12; Hag. 2:3), the Lord announced that His mountains were mountains of bronze. With
pleasure was upon this work, and that His the first chariot were red horses, with the sec-
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omniscient care (“7 eyes”) was watching over ond chariot black horses, with the third char-
and taking pleasure in its completion. He said iot white horses, and with the fourth chariot
in effect, “Don’t despise what God is pleased dappled horses—strong steeds. 4 Then I
with.” This was only a picture of the glorious answered and said to the angel who talked
restoration when the Messiah comes to reign. with me, “What are these, my lord?”
That temple will make all others pale by com- 5 And the angel answered and said to me,
parison (Ezek. 40–48). “These are four spirits of heaven, who go out
from their station before the Lord of all the
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