Zechariah 2:3 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 2:3

Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him

BSB

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ASV

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

KJV

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth,.... See Zec 1:9 and he "went forth" from the place where the prophet was, with whom he had been conversing: and another angel went out to meet him: the same that was seen among the myrtle trees, Zec 1:8 and here, with a measuring line in his hand, Zec 2:1.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 604: “The Man With The Measuring Line” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1864)

IT is evident that this vision and prophecy graciously reveal the future history of Jerusalem. You may spiritualize, if you will, and say that Jerusalem signifies the Church—but I pray you not forget the literal meaning of such words as these in the twelfth verse—"The Lord shall take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem." Jerusalem is spoken of and Jerusalem is meant. A man with a measuring line is about to measure the length and breadth of the city.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהִנֵּ֗ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
הַמַּלְאָ֛ךְ	ha.mal.'Akh	the angel	H4397 →
הַדֹּבֵ֥ר	ha.do.Ver	who was speaking	H1696 →
בִּ֖י	bi	with me
יֹצֵ֑א	yo.Tze'	[was] going out	H3318 →
וּמַלְאָ֣ךְ	u.mal.'Akh	and an angel	H4397 →
אַחֵ֔ר	'a.Cher	another	H312 →
יֹצֵ֖א	yo.Tze'	[was] going out	H3318 →
לִקְרָאתֽוֹ׃	lik.ra.To	to meet him	H7122 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Zechariah 5:5
Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
leads to
- Zechariah 1:9
  “What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Zechariah 4:5
“Do you not know what they are?” replied the angel. “No, my lord,” I answered.
leads to
- Zechariah 4:13
  “Do you not know what these are?” he inquired. “No, my lord,” I replied.
- 1 Corinthians 2:12–15
  We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
Through
Zechariah 1:19
So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
leads to
- Zechariah 2:2
  “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
- Zechariah 1:21
  “What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them…
- Ezra 4:4
  Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build.
- Zechariah 8:14
  For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of…
- Ezra 4:1
  When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

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Zechariah's Vision of Four Chariots — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Zechariah

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