Zechariah 4:3

and two olive-trees [are] by it, one on the right of the bowl and one on its left.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

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,

4And I answer and speak to the messenger who is speaking with me, saying, “What [are] these, my lord?”

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Cross References

Judges 9:9And the olive says to them, Have I ceased from my fatness, by which they honor gods and men, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?

Zechariah 4:14And he says, “These [are] the two sons of the oil, who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.”

Romans 11:24for if you, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, were cut out, and contrary to nature, were grafted into a good olive tree, how much rather will they, who [are] according to nature, be grafted into their own olive tree?

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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