Zechariah 5:6 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 5:6

“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.”

BSB

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ASV

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land

KJV

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

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Commentary

6 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And I said, What is it?.... After he had lifted up his eyes and seen it, he desires to know both what it was, and what was the meaning of it: and he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth; which was a measure much in use with the Jews, Exo 16:36 it is the same with the "bath", and held above seven wine gallons.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Zechariah (420)

(Verse 5 seq.) And an angel came out who spoke to me, and said to me: Lift up your eyes and see what is coming. And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a departing vessel; and he said: This is their eye in all the land. And behold, a weight of lead was being carried, and behold, a woman sitting in the middle of the vessel. And he said: This is wickedness, and he threw her into the middle of the vessel, and he put a lead mass in her mouth.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Goeth forth - Out of the temple. Their resemblance - This is an emblem of this people everywhere. Thus there is limited time and measure for them, while they sin, and are filling the ephah with their sins, they will find that the ephah of wrath is filled up also, to be poured out upon them.

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

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

This is an ephah that goeth forth - This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The woman in the ephah is supposed to represent Judea, which shall be visited for its sins; the talent of lead on the ephah, within which the woman was enclosed, the wrath of God, bending down this culprit nation, in the measure of its sins; for the angel said, “This is wickedness;” that is, the woman represents the mass of iniquity of this nation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This is their resemblance--literally, "eye" (compare Eze 1:4, 5, 16). HENGSTENBERG translates, "Their (the people's) eye" was all directed to evil. But English Version is better.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֹמַ֖ר	va.'o.Mar	and I said	H559 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
הִ֑יא	Hi'	[is] it	H1931 →
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
זֹ֤את	zot	this	H2063 →
הָֽאֵיפָה֙	ha.'ei.Fah	[is] the ephah	H374 →
הַיּוֹצֵ֔את	hai.yo.Tzet	which is going forth	H3318 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
זֹ֥את	zot	this	H2063 →
עֵינָ֖ם	'ei.Nam	[is] appearance their	H5869 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	in all	H3605 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →

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

H374haeifah[is] the ephah40×

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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
Amos 8:5
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us…
leads to
- Nehemiah 13:15–21
  In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being…
- Micah 6:10–11
  Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- Hosea 12:7
  A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- Deuteronomy 25:13–16
  You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
- Leviticus 19:36
  You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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06About Zechariah

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