Zechariah 5:8 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 5:8

“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

BSB

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ASV

And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

KJV

And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And he said, This is wickedness,.... A representation of wicked men, who are wickedness itself, as their inward part is, Psa 5:9 and particularly of the wicked one, the man of sin and son of perdition, the Roman antichrist and apocalyptic beast; who, though he is called by this title, "his Holiness", his true and proper name is "wickedness"; ο ανομος, that wicked lawless one, 2Th 2:8 yea, wickedness itself, being extremely wicked, a sink of sin and of all abominations, Rev 17:

The record, by era

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 Awakening1 voice

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 cast her into the midst of the Ephah - As yet then the measure was not full. Ribera: “She had the lower part within the Ephah, but the upper, especially the head, without. Though the Jews had slain the prophets and done many grievous things, the greatest sin of all remained to be done.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
זֹ֣את	zot	this [woman]	H2063 →
הָרִשְׁעָ֔ה	ha.rish.'Ah	[is] <the> wickedness	H7564 →
וַיַּשְׁלֵ֥ךְ	vai.yash.Lekh	and he threw	H7993 →
אֹתָ֖הּ	'o.Tah	<obj.> her	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
תּ֣וֹךְ	Tokh	[the] midst of	H8432 →
הָֽאֵיפָ֑ה	ha.'ei.Fah	the ephah	H374 →
וַיַּשְׁלֵ֛ךְ	vai.yash.Lekh	and he threw	H7993 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֶ֥בֶן	'E.ven	[the] weight of	H68 →
הָעֹפֶ֖רֶת	ha.'o.Fe.ret	<the> lead	H5777 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
פִּֽיהָ׃ ס	Pi.ha	mouth its	H6310 →

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

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
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
leads to
- Psalms 40:12
  For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- Ezra 9:6
  and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- Matthew 11:28
  Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Lamentations 1:14
  My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those…
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
Through
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
leads to
- Genesis 15:16
  In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Through
Micah 6:11
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
leads to
- Hosea 12:7
  A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Through
Zechariah 5:7
And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.
leads to
- Revelation 17:1–18
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

About Zechariah

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

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Zechariah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Zechariah