Before he could reply I asked again, &#8220;What are these two extensions<n id="1" /> of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?&#8221;

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Next I asked the messenger, &#8220;What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the menorah?&#8221;

So he said, &#8220;These are the two anointed ones<n id="1" /> who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the eighth month of Darius&#8217;<n id="1" /> second year,<n id="2" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to the prophet Zechariah,<n id="3" /> son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">It will happen in all the land, says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">that two-thirds of the people<n id="1" /> in it will be cut off and die,p> <p class="poetry">but one-third will be left in it.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month <i>Shebati>, in Darius&#8217; second year,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:p>

Then I looked again and saw two women<n id="1" /> going forth with the wind in their wings (they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.

Indeed, he will build the temple of the <sc>Lord,sc> and he will be clothed in splendor, sitting as king on his throne. Moreover, there will be a priest<n id="1" /> with him on his throne and they will see eye to eye on everything.

<p class="bodytext">So I<n id="1" /> began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted<n id="2" /> of all the flock. Then I took two staffs,<n id="3" /> calling one &#8220;Pleasantness&#8221;<n id="4" /> and the other &#8220;Binders,&#8221;<n id="5" /> and I tended the flock.