Zechariah 4:5

“Do you not know what they are?” replied the angel. “No, my lord,” I answered.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

In Context

4“What are these, my lord?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

6So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:16“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”

Daniel 2:30And to me this mystery has been revealed, not because I have more wisdom than any man alive, but in order that the interpretation might be made known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

Zechariah 4:13“Do you not know what these are?” he inquired. “No, my lord,” I replied.

1 Corinthians 2:12We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

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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