Zechariah

The Lampstand, the Olive Trees, and Zerubbabel's Task

Chapter 4

¹ The angel who had been speaking to me returned and woke me, like a man from whom sleep departs. ² He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see. And look—a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on its top and its seven lamps on it, seven pipes to the lamps, seven each, that are on its top." ³ And two olive trees by it, one on the right of the gulla and one on its left. ⁴ I answered and said to the angel, the Word in me, "What are these, my lord?" ⁵ The angel answered me and said, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." ⁶ He answered and said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might and not by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts." ⁷ Who are you, great mountain, before Zerubbabel? You shall become a plain. He will bring out the headstone with shoutings of "Grace, grace to it!" ⁸ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ⁹ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. ¹⁰ For who has despised the day of small things? They rejoiced when they saw the tin stone in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of the LORD—they roam through all the land. ¹¹ I answered him, "What are these two olive trees on the right of the menorah and on its left?" ¹² And I answered a second time and said to him, "What are the two olive branches by the hands of the two golden pipes that empty the gold from themselves?" ¹³ And he said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." ¹⁴ He said, "These are the two sons of the olive oil, standing beside the Lord of all the Earth."

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