Zechariah 4:9

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house and his hands will bring it to completion.” Then you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.

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In The King James Version

The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

In Context

8The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

10Who has despised the day of small things? These people will rejoice and will see the plumb stone in the hand of Zerubbabel. (These seven lamps are the eyes of Yahweh that roam over the whole earth.)

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Cross References

Ezra 3:8Then in the second month of the second year after they came to the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, the rest of the priests, the Levites, and those who came from captivity back to Jerusalem began the work. They assigned the Levites twenty years old and older to oversee the work of Yahweh's house.

Ezra 6:14So the Jewish elders built and prospered under the teaching of Haggaithe prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They completed their buildings according to the decree of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of Persia.

Isaiah 48:16Come near to me, listen to this: 1 From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, I am there.” 1 Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit. 1

Zechariah 2:11Then great nations will join themselves to Yahweh in that day. He says, “Then you will become my people; 1 for I will encamp in the midst of you,” and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. 1

Zechariah 6:12Speak to him and say, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 This man, his name is Branch! He will grow up where he is 1 and will then build the temple of Yahweh! 1

Matthew 16:18I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. The gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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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