Zechariahchapter 5
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A.A flying scroll that lodges in the thief's housevv. 1-4
1 Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll. 2 “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” 3 Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed. 4 I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
B.The ephah, the woman named Wickedness, and a house in Shinarvv. 5-11
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.” 6 “What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.” 7 And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket. 8 “This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening. 9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth. 10 “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me. 11 “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”
Chapter summary
Two visions of sin removed rather than merely forgiven.
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Chapter summary
Two visions of sin removed rather than merely forgiven.
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Two visions of sin removed rather than merely forgiven. A flying roll twenty cubits by ten sails over the land ('this is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land') entering the house of the thief and of the man who swears falsely by God's name, consuming it, timber and stones. Then a measuring basket comes out with a lead cover, and inside sits a woman: 'This is Wickedness.' She is shoved down and the lead weight slammed on the mouth of it. Two winged women lift the basket between earth and heaven, and Zechariah asks where: 'To build her a house in the land of Shinar': evil deported to Babylon's plain, where Revelation 17 finds it again.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Prophecy · Zechariah — Zechariah overview
- A. 1–4 A flying scroll that lodges in the thief's house
- B. 5–11 The ephah, the woman named Wickedness, and a house in Shinar
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