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Text -- Zechariah 5:1-8 (NET)
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Vision Six: The Flying Scroll
5:1 Then I turned to look , and there was a flying scroll !
5:2 Someone asked me, “What do you see ?” I replied , “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide .”
5:3 The speaker went on to say , “This is a curse traveling across the whole earth . For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse ) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.”
5:4 “I will send it out ,” says the Lord who rules over all , “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name . It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones .”
Vision Seven: The Ephah
5:5 After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said , “Look , see what is leaving .”
5:6 I asked , “What is it?” And he replied , “It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said , “This is their ‘eye ’ throughout all the earth .”
5:7 Then a round lead cover was raised up , revealing a woman sitting inside the basket .
5:8 He then said , “This woman represents wickedness ,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
JOSHUA (3) |
Angel |
ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF |
Symbols and Similitudes |
Vision |
Lead |
Wicked |
EPHAH (2) |
Measure |
Lies and Deceits |
Dishonesty |
Blasphemy |
WEIGHT |
Women |
Roll |
Theft |
CRIME; CRIMES |
Punishment |
OLD TESTAMENT |
Ephah |
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NET Notes: Zec 5:2 Heb “twenty cubits…ten cubits” (so NAB, NRSV). These dimensions (“thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide”) can hardly be...
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NET Notes: Zec 5:3 Stealing and swearing falsely (mentioned later in this verse) are sins against mankind and God respectively and are thus violations of the two major p...
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