Zechariah 4

Fifth Vision: Gold Lampstand

1The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep. 2He asked me, “What do you see? ”

I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. The lampstand also has seven lamps at the top with seven spouts for each of # 4:2 Or seven lips to the lamps. 3There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

4Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord? ”

5“Don’t you know what they are? ” replied the angel who was speaking with me.

I said, “No, my lord.”

6So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,’ # 4:6 Hs 1:7; Hg 2:4–5 says the Lord of Armies. 7‘What are you, great mountain? # 4:7 Mt 17:20; 21:21; 1Co 13:2 Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. # 4:7 Is 40:4 And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it! ’ ”

8Then the word of the Lord came to me: # 4:8 Zch 6:9 9“Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house, # 4:9 Ezr 3:8–11; 5:16 and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. 10For who despises the day of small things? # 4:10 Hg 2:3–4 These seven eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the ceremonial stone # 4:10 Lit the tin stone in Zerubbabel’s hand.” # 4:10 2Ch 16:9; Ps 34:15; Pr 15:3; Am 9:8; 1Pt 3:12

11I asked him, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand? ” 12And I questioned him further, “What are the two streams # 4:12 Or branches of the olive trees, from which the golden oil is pouring through the two golden conduits? ”

13Then he inquired of me, “Don’t you know what these are? ”

“No, my lord,” I replied.

14“These are the two anointed ones,” # 4:14 = Joshua and Zerubbabel,# 4:14 Jr 33:17–22 he said, “who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.” # 4:14 Rv 11:3–4

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Zecharyah 4

1And the malach that spoke with me returned, and awakened me, like a man that is wakened out of his sleep. 2And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and hinei a menorat zahav, solid gold, with an oil vessel upon the top of it, and shivah nerot (lamps) thereon, and shivah tubes to the shivah nerot (lamps), which are upon the top thereof: 3And two zeytim (olive trees) by it, one upon the right side of the oil vessel, and the other upon the left side thereof. 4So I answered and spoke to the malach that spoke with me, saying, What are these, adoni? 5Then the malach that spoke with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, Lo (no), adoni. 6Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the Devar Hashem unto Zerubavel, saying:

Not by might, nor by ko'ach (power),

but by My Ruach,#4:6 Hakodesh saith Hashem Tzva'os.

7Who art thou, O har hagadol (great mountain), before Zerubavel?

Thou shalt become a plain;

and he shall bring forth the even haroshah (cornerstone) thereof with shoutings, crying,

Chen, chen (Grace, grace) unto it.

8Moreover the Devar Hashem came unto me, saying:

9The hands of Zerubavel have laid the Yesod (foundation) of this Beis;#4:9 HaMikdash

his hands shall also finish it;

then thou shalt know that Hashem Tzva'os

hath sent me unto you.

10For who hath despised

the Yom Ketannot (day of small things)?

For they shall have simcha, and shall see

the plumb line in the hand of Zerubavel

with these shivah; they are the eyes of Hashem,

which run to and fro throughout kol ha'aretz.

11Then I replied by asking him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the menorah and upon the left side thereof? 12And I asked again, and said unto him, What are these two branches of the zeytim which through the two golden sprouts pour the gold-colored oil out of themselves? 13And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, Lo (no), adoni. 14Then said he, These are the two bnei hayitzhar (sons of oil), that stand by Adon Kol Ha'aretz.#4:14 T.N. See Mal 3:1 where Moshiach is referred to similarly

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