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Zechariah 4:4

And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying: What are these things, my lord?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Holy Spirit;   Olive;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Olive;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Messiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lord;   Messiah;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Zerubbabel;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Old - golden;   Olive (tree);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hearth;   Zechariah, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 9;  

Parallel Translations

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

Contextual Overview

1 And the angel that spoke in me came again: and he waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. 2 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof. 3 And two olive trees over it: one upon the right side of the lamp, and the other upon the left side thereof. 4 And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying: What are these things, my lord? 5 And the angel that spoke in me answered, and said to me: Knowest thou not what these things are? And I said: No, my lord. 6 And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zorobabel? thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring out the chief stone, and shall give equal grace to the grace thereof. 8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 9 The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundations of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to you. 10 For who hath despised little days? and they shall rejoice, and shall see the tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel. These are the seven eyes of the Lord, that run to and fro through the whole earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Zechariah 4:12-14, Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:19, Zechariah 5:6, Zechariah 6:4, Daniel 7:16-19, Daniel 12:8, Matthew 13:36, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 7:14

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.
Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.
Genesis 4:19
Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.
Genesis 4:20
And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.
Genesis 15:17
And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
Exodus 13:12
Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.
Leviticus 9:24
And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.
Numbers 16:35
And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.
Numbers 18:17
But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I answered, and spake to the angel that talked with me,.... The same that awoke him out of sleep, and asked him what he saw:

saying, What [are] these, my lord? that is, what do they signify? what do they represent? or what are they emblems of? for he knew what they were; that they were a candlestick, and two olive trees; but he was desirous of knowing what the meaning of them were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Osorius: “Awakened from his state of sleep, even thus the prophet seemed slowly to understand what was shown him. He asks then of the instructing angel. The angel, almost amazed, asks if he knowns it not, and when he plainly declares his ignorance, makes clear the enigma of the vision.”


 
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