Zechariah 5:1
Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 36:1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Jeremiah 36:27After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Zechariah 5:2“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
Revelation 10:2He held in his hand a scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 5:1
Hitherto we have seen visions of peace only, and all the words we have heard have been good words and comfortable words. But the pillar of cloud and fire has a black and dark side towards the Egyptians, as well as a bright and pleasant side towards Israel; so have Zechariah's visions; for God's prophets are not only his ambassadors, to treat of peace with the sons of peace, but heralds, to proclaim war against those that delight in war, and persist in their rebellion. In this chapter we have two visions, by which… Read the whole commentary →