Zechariah 2:6
\2:2\And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.
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5\2:1\And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.
7\2:3\And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,
Cross References
Genesis 19:17And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
Ruth 4:1And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.
Isaiah 52:11Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
Jeremiah 1:14Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.
Jeremiah 15:4And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:10Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 2:2-6
The Vision of the Measuring Line. ( b. c. 520.) 1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, 4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of… Read the whole commentary →