Zechariah 4:5
And the angel who was speaking with me answered, and he said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
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In Context
4And I answered and spoke to the angel who was speaking with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
Cross References
Genesis 41:16Joseph responded, “Apart from me, God will respond favorably to Pharaoh.”
Daniel 2:30To me, likewise, this mystery is revealed, not according to the wisdom that is in me more than in other living things, but so that the interpretation might be made manifest to the king, and so that you may know the thoughts of your mind.
Zechariah 4:13And he spoke to me, saying, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
1 Corinthians 2:12But we have not received the spirit of this world, but the Spirit who is of God, so that we may understand the things that have been given to us by God.
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 →