Zechariah 4:11

And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

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In The King James Version

Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

In Context

10For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

12And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?

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Cross References

Zechariah 4:3And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 4:2-11

The Vision of the Golden Candlestick; The Building of the Temple Encouraged. ( b. c. 520.) 1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, 2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: 3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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