Zechariah 4:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep. ²"What do you see?" he asked. "I see a solid gold lampstand," I replied, "with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to each of the lamps. ³There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left." ⁴"What are these, my lord?" I asked the angel who was speaking with me. ⁵"Do you not know what they are?" replied the angel. "No, my lord," I answered.⁶So he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts. ⁷What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'" ⁸Then the word of the LORD came to me: ⁹"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you. ¹⁰For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Knowest: Zechariah 4:13, Mark 4:13

No: Genesis 41:16, Psalms 139:6, Daniel 2:30, 1 Corinthians 2:12-15

Reciprocal: Zechariah 1:9 - the angel Zechariah 2:3 - the angel Zechariah 5:5 - the angel

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
"What have you done?" replied the LORD. "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Genesis 31:5
and he told them, "I can see from your father's face that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

Numbers 16:15
Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them."

Job 5:2
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Psalms 20:3
May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah

Matthew 20:15
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me,.... Either to upbraid him with his ignorance and stupidity; or rather to quicken his attention, and that of others, to the interpretation of it he was about to give him:

Knowest thou not what these be? art thou ignorant of the design of them? or knowest thou not what is meant by them?

and I said, No, my lord; he made an ingenuous confession of his ignorance, joined with great respect unto, and veneration of, the angel that conversed with him.