Zechariah 4:1

And the messenger who is speaking with me turns back, and stirs me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

In Context

2and he says to me, “What are you seeing?” And I say, “I have looked, and behold, a lampstand of gold—all of it, and its bowl [is] on its top, and its seven lamps [are] on it, and twice seven pipes [are] to the lights that [are] on its top,

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Cross References

1 Kings 19:5And he lies down and sleeps under a certain broom tree, and behold, a messenger is reaching toward him and says to him, “Rise, eat”;

Daniel 8:18And in his speaking with me, I have been in a trance on my face, on the earth; and he comes against me, and causes me to stand on my station,

Zechariah 1:9And I say, “What [are] these, my lord?” And the messenger who is speaking with me says to me, “I show you what these [are].”

Zechariah 1:19And I say to the messenger who is speaking with me, “What [are] these?” And he says to me, “These [are] the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 3:6and the Messenger of YHWH protests to Joshua, saying,

Luke 22:45And having risen up from the prayer, having come to the disciples, He found them sleeping from the sorrow,

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 4:1

In this chapter we have another comfortable vision, which, as it was explained to the prophet, had much in it for the encouragement of the people of God in their present straits, which were so great that they thought their case helpless, that their temple could never be rebuilt nor their city replenished; and therefore the scope of the vision is to show that God would, by his own power, perfect the work, though the assistance given to it by its friends were ever so weak, and the resistance given to it by its… Read the whole commentary →

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