Zechariah 4:3
and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Cross References
Judges 9:9But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
Zechariah 4:14Then said he, These are the two sons of oil, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Romans 11:24For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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 →