Zechariah 2:3

Good News Translation

Then I saw the angel who had been speaking to me step forward, and another angel came to meet him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him.

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

King James Version (1611)
And behold, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth, and another Angel went out to meete him:

King James Version
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

English Standard Version
And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him

New American Standard Bible
And behold, the angel who had been speaking with me was going out, and another angel was going out to meet him.

New Century Version
Then the angel who was talking with me left, and another angel came out to meet him.

Amplified Bible
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And beholde, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth: and another Angel went out to meete him,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

Legacy Standard Bible
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him

Berean Standard Bible
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him

Contemporary English Version
The angel who had spoken to me was leaving, when another angel came up to him

Complete Jewish Bible
Next, Adonai showed me four artisans.

Darby Translation
And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth; and another angel went forth to meet him,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel went out to talk to him.

George Lamsa Translation
And behold, the angel who was talking with me went forth, and another angel came to meet him.

Lexham English Bible
And look, the angel who was talking to me was coming forward, and another angel was coming forward to meet him.

Literal Translation
And, behold, the angel who was talking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

American Standard Version
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Bible in Basic English
And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And behold, the angel that talked with me, went his way foorth: Then went there out another angel to meete him,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And, behold, the angel that spoke with me stood by, and another angel went forth to meet him,

English Revised Version
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

World English Bible
Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And lo! the aungel that spak in me, wente out, and another aungel wente out in to the metyng of hym, and seide to hym,

Update Bible Version
And, look, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Webster's Bible Translation
And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

New English Translation
At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

New King James Version
And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him,

New Living Translation
Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him.

New Life Bible
Then the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

New Revised Standard
Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And lo! the messenger who was talking with me, coming forward, - and another messenger, coming forward to meet him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him.

Revised Standard Version
And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,

Young's Literal Translation
And lo, the messenger who is speaking with me is going out, and another messenger is going out to meet him,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And beholde, the angel that talked wt me, wente his waye forth. Then wete there out another angel to mete him,

Contextual Overview

¹ In another vision I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² "Where are you going?" I asked. "To measure Jerusalem," he answered, "to see how long and how wide it is." ³ Then I saw the angel who had been speaking to me step forward, and another angel came to meet him. ⁴ The first one said to the other, "Run and tell that young man with the measuring line that there are going to be so many people and so much livestock in Jerusalem that it will be too big to have walls. ⁵ The Lord has promised that he himself will be a wall of fire around the city to protect it and that he will live there in all his glory."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the angel: Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:13, Zechariah 1:14, Zechariah 1:19, Zechariah 4:1, Zechariah 4:5, Zechariah 5:5

and another: Zechariah 1:8, Zechariah 1:10, Zechariah 1:11

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 25:38 - hath Ezekiel 1:14 - General Daniel 7:16 - one Daniel 8:13 - one saint Zechariah 3:1 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.

Genesis 2:3
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

Genesis 2:4
And that is how the universe was created. When the Lord God made the universe,

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.

Genesis 2:10
A stream flowed in Eden and watered the garden; beyond Eden it divided into four rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:12
(Pure gold is found there and also rare perfume and precious stones.)

Genesis 2:13
The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush.

Genesis 2:14
The third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria, and the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth,.... See Zechariah 1:9 and he "went forth" from the place where the prophet was, with whom he had been conversing:

and another angel went out to meet him: the same that was seen among the myrtle trees, Zechariah 1:8 and here, with a measuring line in his hand, Zechariah 2:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The angel that talked with me went forth - Probably to receive the explanation which was given him for Zechariah; and another angel, a higher angel, since he gives him a commission, “went forth to meet him,” being (it seems probable) instructed by the Angel of the Lord, who laid down the future dimensions of the city. The indefiniteness of the description, another angel, implies that he was neither the Angel of the Lord, nor (were they different) Michael, or the man with the measuring line, but an angel of intermediate rank, instructed by one higher, instructing the lower, who immediately instructed Zechariah.