Zechariah 4:1

And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

In Context

2and he saith unto me, 'What art thou seeing?' And I say, 'I have looked, and lo, a candlestick of gold — all of it, and its bowl [is] on its top, and its seven lamps [are] upon it, and twice seven pipes [are] to the lights that [are] on its top,

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Cross References

1 Kings 19:5And he lieth down and sleepeth under a certain retem-tree, and lo, a messenger cometh against him, and saith to him, 'Rise, eat;'

Daniel 8:18And in his speaking with me, I have been in a trance on my face, on the earth; and he cometh against me, and causeth me to stand on my station,

Zechariah 1:9And I say, 'What [are] these, my lord?' And the messenger who is speaking with me saith unto me, 'I — I do shew thee what these [are].'

Zechariah 1:19And I say unto the messenger who is speaking with me, 'What [are] these?' And he saith unto me, 'These [are] the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.'

Zechariah 3:6and the messenger of Jehovah doth protest to Joshua, saying:

Luke 22:45And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 4:1

In this chapter we have another comfortable vision, which, as it was explained to the prophet, had much in it for the encouragement of the people of God in their present straits, which were so great that they thought their case helpless, that their temple could never be rebuilt nor their city replenished; and therefore the scope of the vision is to show that God would, by his own power, perfect the work, though the assistance given to it by its friends were ever so weak, and the resistance given to it by its… Read the whole commentary →

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