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Zechariah 6:4

Then I asked the angelic messenger who was speaking with me, "What are these, sir?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Vision;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Answer;   Horses;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Vision;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zephaniah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chariots;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Colours;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Horse;   Zechariah, Prophecy of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chariot;   Four;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Merkabah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I inquired of the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”
Hebrew Names Version
Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
King James Version (1611)
Then I answered, and said vnto the Angel that talked with mee, What are these, my Lord ?
King James Version
Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
English Standard Version
Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
New American Standard Bible
So I responded and said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
New Century Version
I asked the angel who was talking with me, "What are these, sir?"
Amplified Bible
Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I answered, and saide vnto the Angell that talked with mee, What are these, my Lorde?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
Berean Standard Bible
So I inquired of the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
Contemporary English Version
"Sir," I asked the angel. "What do these stand for?"
Complete Jewish Bible
I asked the angel speaking with me, "What are these, my Lord?"
Darby Translation
And I spoke and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Easy-to-Read Version
I asked the angel who was talking with me, "Sir, what does this mean?"
George Lamsa Translation
Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Good News Translation
Then I asked the angel, "Sir, what do these chariots mean?"
Lexham English Bible
And I answered and said to the angel that was talking to me, "What are these, my lord?"
Literal Translation
And I answered and said to the angel who was talking with me, What are these, my lord?
American Standard Version
Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Bible in Basic English
And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then I answered and said unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these, my lord?'
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then spake I, and saide vnto the angel that talked with me: O Lord, what are these?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I answered and said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord?
English Revised Version
Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
World English Bible
Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y answeride, and seide to the aungel that spak in me, What ben these thingis, my lord?
Update Bible Version
Then I answered and said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Webster's Bible Translation
Then I answered and said to the angel that talked with me, What [are] these, my lord?
New King James Version
Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
New Living Translation
"And what are these, my lord?" I asked the angel who was talking with me.
New Life Bible
Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
New Revised Standard
Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then began I, and said, unto the messenger who was speaking with me, - What are these, my lord?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me: What are these, my lord?
Revised Standard Version
Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
Young's Literal Translation
And I answer and say unto the messenger who is speaking with me, `What [are] these, my lord?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then spake I, and sayde vnto the angel that talked with me: O lorde, what are these?
THE MESSAGE
I asked the Messenger-Angel, "Sir, what's the meaning here?"

Contextual Overview

1 Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze. 2 Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses, 3 to the third white horses, and to the fourth spotted horses, all of them strong. 4 Then I asked the angelic messenger who was speaking with me, "What are these, sir?" 5 The messenger replied, "These are the four spirits of heaven that have been presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth. 6 The chariot with the black horses is going to the north country and the white ones are going after them, but the spotted ones are going to the south country. 7 All these strong ones are scattering; they have sought permission to go and walk about over the earth." The Lord had said, "Go! Walk about over the earth!" So they are doing so. 8 Then he cried out to me, "Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me peace about the northland."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto: Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:19-21, Zechariah 5:5, Zechariah 5:6, Zechariah 5:10

Reciprocal: Daniel 9:22 - he informed Zechariah 4:4 - What

Cross-References

Genesis 6:15
This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them."
Genesis 6:22
And Noah did all that God commanded him—he did indeed.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."
Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed like grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them."
Numbers 16:2
and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders of the community, chosen from the assembly, famous men.
Deuteronomy 3:11
Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)
1 Samuel 17:4
Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me,.... After he had seen the chariots come out, and had observed the different colours of the horses in them:

what [are] these, my lord? that is, what do they signify? what is the meaning of this vision?


 
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