UZekariya 5:3

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

3 Sathi kum, Eso ke sisishwabulo esiphuma sihambe phezu kwelizwe lonke; ngokuba bonke abebayo baya kutshayelwa apha ngokokwayo; bonke abafungayo baya kutshayelwa ngaphaya ngokokwayo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the curse: Deuteronomy 11:28, Deuteronomy 11:29, Deuteronomy 27:15-26, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:19-28, Psalms 109:17-20, Proverbs 3:33, Isaiah 24:6, Isaiah 43:28, Jeremiah 26:6, Daniel 9:11, Malachi 3:9, Malachi 4:6, Matthew 25:41, Galatians 3:10-13, Hebrews 6:6-8, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

the face: Luke 21:35

every one: etc. or, every one of this people that stealeth, holdeth himself guiltless, as it doth. stealeth. Exodus 20:15, Proverbs 29:24, Proverbs 30:9, Jeremiah 7:9, Hosea 4:2, Malachi 3:8-10, 1 Corinthians 6:7-9, Ephesians 4:28, James 5:4

sweareth: Zechariah 5:4, Zechariah 8:17, Leviticus 19:12, Isaiah 48:1, Jeremiah 5:2, Jeremiah 23:10, Ezekiel 17:13-16, Malachi 3:5, Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 23:16-22, 1 Timothy 1:9, James 5:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:56 - the face Leviticus 19:11 - shall not Numbers 5:24 - General Deuteronomy 28:17 - General Joshua 9:20 - lest wrath 2 Kings 5:24 - and bestowed Nehemiah 5:13 - So God Job 11:14 - let not Job 22:23 - thou shalt Psalms 24:4 - sworn Psalms 37:22 - cut off Proverbs 15:27 - He that is Proverbs 21:7 - destroy them Ecclesiastes 9:2 - feareth Ezekiel 17:16 - whose oath Amos 3:10 - who Micah 6:10 - the treasures Matthew 26:72 - with Mark 11:21 - General Acts 1:20 - Let his 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse,.... So the law of Moses is called, because it has curses written in it,

Deuteronomy 27:15 which curse is not causeless, but is according to law and justice; it is from the Lord, and is no other than the wrath of the Almighty; and, wherever it lights, it will remain and continue for ever. Vitringa, on Isaiah 24:6 says, this is the curse which Isaiah there prophesies of, which had its accomplishment in the times of Antiochus; but there the prophet is speaking, not of the land of Judea, but of the antichristian states.

That goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: over the whole land of Judea, and the inhabitants of it, for their breach of the law, contempt of the Gospel, and the rejection of the Messiah; and which had its accomplishment when wrath came upon them to the uttermost, in the destruction of their nation, city, and temple; and is the curse God threatened to smite their land with, Malachi 4:6 and this curse also reaches to the whole world, and the inhabitants of it, who lie in wickedness; and to all sorts of sinners, particularly those next mentioned:

for everyone that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side, according to it; as it is written and declared on one side of the roll:

and everyone that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it; as is written and declared on the other side of the roll; which two sins of theft and false swearing, the one being against the second, and the other the first table of the law, show that the curse of the law reaches to all sorts of sins and sinners; to all who do not keep it in every respect: and, indeed, to all but those who are redeemed from it by the blood of Christ; and that it is proportioned according to a man's sins: and those two are particularly mentioned, because they are sins which prevailed among the Jews at the time Christ was on earth. Theft did, both in a literal and figurative sense,

Matthew 23:14 and so did vain swearing, Matthew 5:33.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Over the face of the whole earth - primarily land, since the perjured persons, upon whom the curse was to fall Zechariah 5:4, were those who swore falsely by the name of God: and this was in Judah only. The reference to the two tables of the law also confines it primarily to those who were under the law. Yet, since the moral law abides under the Gospel, ultimately these visions related to the Christian Church, which was to be spread over the whole earth. The roll apparently was shown, as written on both sides; the commandments of the first table, in which perjury is forbidden, on the one side; those relating to the love of our neighbor, in which stealing is forbidden, on the other. Theodoret: “He calleth curse that vengeance, which goeth through the whole world, and is brought upon the workers of iniquity. But hereby both prophets and people were taught, that the God of all is the judge of all people, and will exact meet punishment of all, bringing utter destruction not on those only who live ungodly toward Himself, but on those also who are unjust to their neighbors. For let no one think that this threat was only against thieves and false-swearers; for He gave sentence against all iniquity. For since all the law and the prophets hang on this word, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself,” He comprised every sort of sin under false swearing and theft. The violation of oaths is the head of all ungodliness. One who so doeth is devoid of the love of God. But theft indicates injustice to one’s neighbor; for no one who loves his neighbor will endure to be unjust to him. These heads then comprehend all the other laws.”

Shall be cut off - Literally, “cleansed away” , as something defiled and defiling, which has to be cleared away as offensive: as God says, “I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, until it be all gone” (1 Kings 14:10, add 1 Kings 21:21), and so often in Deuteronomy, “thou shalt put the evil away from the midst of thee” (Deuteronomy 13:5 (6 Heb.); Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 19:19; Deuteronomy 21:21; Deuteronomy 22:21, Deuteronomy 22:24; Deuteronomy 24:7), or “of Israel” Deuteronomy 17:12; Deuteronomy 23:22, and in Ezekiel, “I will disperse thee in the countries and will consume thy filthiness out of thee” Ezekiel 22:15. Set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot and may burn, and the filthiness of it may be molten, that the scum of it may be consumed” Ezekiel 24:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 5:3. Every one that stealeth - and every one that sweareth — It seems that the roll was written both on the front and back: stealing and swearing are supposed to be two general heads of crimes; the former, comprising sins against men; the latter, sins against God. It is supposed that the roll contained the sins and punishments of the Chaldeans.