Zechariah 5:6

I said. “What is it?” He said, “It is a measuring basket, full of the guilt of the land.”

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In The King James Version

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

In Context

5Then the messenger who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Look up and see what is now coming.”

7A round leaden cover was lifted up, and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the basket.

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Cross References

Amos 8:5saying: When will the feast of the new moon be over so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath ended so that we may offer wheat for sale? Reducing the measure and increasing the price, cheating with false scales,

Micah 6:10“Can I forget the hoarded treasures in the houses of the wicked, and the accursed scant measure?

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 5:6-11

The Vision of the Ephah. ( b. c. 520.) 5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. 8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the… Read the whole commentary →

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