Zechariah 5:11 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 5:11

“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.”

BSB

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ASV

And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

KJV

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Zechariah (420)

(Verse 9 and following) And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw, and behold, two women coming forth, and a spirit was on their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite, and they lifted up an amphora between the earth and the sky. And I said to the angel who spoke to me: Where are these taking the amphora? And he said to me: To build a house for it in the land of Shinar, and it will be established and placed there upon its base.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

To build - Not in mercy, but in judgment. Of Shinar - Of Babylon whither many of the Jews fled, and others of them were forced by the Romans. Set there - There they shall be confined without hope of release.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And he gives him this account of it: I see a flying roll, and as near as he can guess by his eye it is twenty cubits long (that is, ten yards) and ten cubits broad, that is, five yards. The scriptures of the Old Testament and the New are rolls, in which God has written to us the great things of his law and gospel. Christ is the Master of the rolls.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

To build it an house in the land of Shinar - The name of Shinar, though strictly Babylonia, carries back to an older power than the world-empire of Babylon; which now too was destroyed. “In the land of Shinar” Gen 11:2 was that first attempt to array a world-empire against God, ere mankind was ye dispersed. And so it is the apter symbol of the antitheist or anti-Christian world, which by violence, art, falsehood, sophistry, wars against the truth.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Wickedness" being cast out of Judah, shall for ever dwell with the antichristian apostates (of whom Babylon is the type), who shall reap the fruit of it, which they deserve.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֵלַ֔י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
לִבְנֽוֹת־	Liv.not-	to build	H1129 →
לָ֥הֿ	lah	for it
בַ֖יִת	Va.yit	a house	H1004 →
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
שִׁנְעָ֑ר	shin.'Ar	Shinar	H8152 →
וְהוּכַ֛ן	ve.hu.Khan	and it will be prepared	H3559 →
וְהֻנִּ֥יחָה	ve.hu.Ni.chah	and it will be placed	H5117 →
שָּׁ֖ם	sham	there	H8033 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מְכֻנָתָֽהּ׃ ס	me.khu.na.Tah	on own stand its	H4369 →

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
Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
leads to
- Genesis 11:2
  And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 11:9
  That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Through
Genesis 14:1
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
leads to
- Genesis 10:10
  His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Genesis 11:2
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
leads to
- Isaiah 11:11
  On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 14:1
  In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 1:2
  And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house…
Through
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:7
  Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 27:19–20
  For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,

About Zechariah

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

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PlaceLower MesopotamiaShinarThe Babylonian plain of Nimrod's kingdom and Babel's tower, and the land where Zechariah's vision gives wickedness a house.

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06About Zechariah

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