Zechariah 5:7 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 5:7

And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

BSB

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ASV

(and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

KJV

And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

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Commentary

4 voices

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 record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead,.... By the angel; since he is afterwards said to cast it upon the mouth of the "ephah". A cicar, or talent of silver, with the Jews, was equal to three thousand shekels, as may be gathered from Exo 38:24 and weighed a hundred and twenty five pounds (a); or, as others, a hundred and twenty (b), and, according to the more exact account of Dr. Arbuthnot, a hundred and thirteen pounds, ten ounces, one pennyweight, and ten and two seventh grains of our Troy weight.

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 Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And behold there was lifted up a talent of lead - the heaviest Hebrew weight, elsewhere of gold or silver; the golden talent weighing, 1,300,000 grains; the silver, 660,000; here, being lead, it is obviously an undefined mass, though circular , corresponding to the Ephah. The Ephah too was the largest Hebrew measure, whose compass cannot now, with certainty, be ascertained . Both probably were, in the vision, ideal. Theodoret: “Holy Scripture calleth the punishment of sin, lead, as being by nature heavy.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהִנֵּ֛ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
כִּכַּ֥ר	ki.Kar	a round cover of	H3603 →
עֹפֶ֖רֶת	'o.Fe.ret	lead	H5777 →
נִשֵּׂ֑את	ni.Set	[was] raised	H5375 →
וְזֹאת֙	ve.zoT	and this	H2063 →
אִשָּׁ֣ה	'i.Shah	woman	H802 →
אַחַ֔ת	'a.Chat	one	H259 →
יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת	yo.She.vet	[was] sitting	H3427 →
בְּת֥וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in [the] midst of	H8432 →
הָאֵיפָֽה׃	ha.'ei.Fah	the ephah	H374 →

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

H374haeifahthe ephah40×

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Where the connections lead

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You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
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- Jeremiah 33:2–3
  “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:
- Micah 7:7
  But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- 2 Kings 25:4
  Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden.…
- Isaiah 31:1
  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
- Isaiah 17:7
  In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

About Zechariah

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

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

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04Related verses

06About Zechariah

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