Zechariah 5:9 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 5:9

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

BSB

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ASV

Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

KJV

Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

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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)

There came out - From the same place whence the ephah came. Their wings - They had wings, like the wings of storks, large and strong, and flew before the wind with great swiftness. The judgments came thus flying, and so bore away with them those that were incorrigible.

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)

There came out two women - It may be that there may be no symbol herein, but that he names women because it was a woman who was so carried; yet their wings were the wings of an unclean bird, strong, powerful, borne by a force not their own; with their will, since they flew; beyond their will, since the wind was in their wings; rapidly, inexorably, irresistibly, they flew and bore the Ephah between heaven and earth. No earthly power could reach or rescue it. God would not.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֶשָּׂ֨א	va.'e.Sa'	and I lifted up	H5375 →
עֵינַ֜י	'ei.Nai	eyes my	H5869 →
וָאֵ֗רֶא	va.'E.re'	and I saw	H7200 →
וְהִנֵּה֩	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
שְׁתַּ֨יִם	she.Ta.yim	two	H8147 →
נָשִׁ֤ים	na.Shim	women	H802 →
יֽוֹצְאוֹת֙	yotz.'Ot	[were] going forth	H3318 →
וְר֣וּחַ	ve.Ru.ach	and a wind	H7307 →
בְּכַנְפֵיהֶ֔ם	be.khan.fei.Hem	[was] in wings their	H3671 →
וְלָהֵ֥נָּה	ve.la.He.nah	and [belonged] to them
כְנָפַ֖יִם	khe.na.Fa.yim	wings	H3671 →
כְּכַנְפֵ֣י	ke.khan.Fei	like [the] wings of	H3671 →
הַחֲסִידָ֑ה	ha.cha.si.Dah	<the> stork	H2624 →
וַתִּשֶּׂ֙אנָה֙	va.ti.Se.nah	and they lifted up	H5375 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָ֣אֵיפָ֔ה	ha.'ei.Fah	the ephah	H374 →
בֵּ֥ין	bein	between	H996 →
הָאָ֖רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
וּבֵ֥ין	u.Vein	and between	H996 →
הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →

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
Matthew 24:28
Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
leads to
- Luke 17:37
  “Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”
- Job 39:27–30
  Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
Through
Hosea 8:1
Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:49
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hosea 6:7
  But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
- Jeremiah 4:13
  Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
Through
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
leads to
- Lamentations 4:19
  Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 49:22
  Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 48:40
  For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

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

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Zechariah