Zechariah 4

Zechariah 4

Fifth Vision: The Lampstand and Olive Trees

1The angel who spoke with me came again and wakened me, as one is wakened from sleep.[#Dan 8.18; Zech 1.9; 2.3]

2He said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it; there are seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.[#Ex 25.31; Rev 4.5]

3And by it there are two olive trees, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”[#Rev 11.4]

4I said to the angel who spoke with me, “What are these, my lord?”

5Then the angel who spoke with me answered me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”

6He said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.[#Hag 2.4, 5; Eph 6.17]

7What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain, and he shall bring out the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’ ”[#Ezra 3.10, 11; Jer 51.25]

8Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

9“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.[#Ezra 3.10; Isa 48.16; Zech 2.9, 11]

10For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel.[#Hag 2.3; Zech 1.10; 3.9; Rev 8.2]

“These seven are the eyes of the Lord that range through the whole earth.”

11Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”

12And a second time I said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees that pour out the oil through the two golden pipes?”[#4.12 Cn: Heb gold]

13He said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”

14Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”[#Mic 4.13; Zech 3.1–7; Rev 11.4]

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