Zechariah 5:4

“I have brought it out,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “and it has come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who has sworn in My Name with a falsehood, and it has remained in the midst of his house, and has consumed it, both its wood and its stones.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

In Context

3And he says to me, “This [is] the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for everyone who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, has been declared innocent, and everyone who has sworn, on the other side, according to it, has been declared innocent.”

5And the messenger who is speaking with me goes forth and says to me, “Now lift up your eyes, and [do you] see what this [is] that is coming forth?”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:26and you do not bring in an abomination to your house, or you have been devoted like it—you utterly detest it and you utterly abhor it; for it [is] devoted.”

Joshua 9:20we do this to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not on us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.”

Job 8:22Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”

Job 20:26All darkness is hid for his treasures, || A fire not blown consumes him, || The remnant is broken in his tent.

Habakkuk 2:9Woe [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, || To set his nest on high, || To be delivered from the hand of evil,

James 5:2your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 5:2-5

The Vision of the Flying Roll. ( b. c. 520.) 1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to… Read the whole commentary →

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