Zechariah 4:5

And the messenger who is speaking with me answers and says to me, “Have you not known what these [are]?” And I say, “No, my lord.”

Literal Standard Version

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

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

6And he answers and speaks to me, saying, “This [is] a word of YHWH to Zerubbabel, saying, || Not by a force, nor by power, || But—by My Spirit, said YHWH of Hosts.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:16and Joseph answers Pharaoh, saying, “Without me—God answers Pharaoh with peace.”

Daniel 2:30As for me—not for [any] wisdom that is in me above any living has this secret been revealed to me; but for the intent that the interpretation to the king they make known, and the thoughts of your heart you know.

Zechariah 4:13And he speaks to me, saying, “Have you not known what these [are]?” And I say, “No, my lord.”

1 Corinthians 2:12And we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on 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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