Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked, fascinated by a further wonderful thing that happened, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings, aiding them in their movement forward as they carried the ephah; for they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven, carrying it along very quickly, away from the Holy Land.
Verse Zechariah 5:9. _THERE CAME OUT TWO WOMEN_] As the _one woman_ represented the _impiety_ of the Jewish nation; so these _two_ women who were to _carry the ephah_, in which the woman INIQUITY was...
THERE CAME OUT TWO WOMEN - It may be that there may be no symbol herein, but that he names women because it was a woman who was so carried; yet their wings were the wings of an unclean bird, strong, p...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The sixth vision (Zechariah 5:1) _ 2. The seventh vision (Zechariah 5:5) Zechariah 5:1. The three remaining night visions are of a different character. The first visions the prophet h...
THE TRANSFERENCE TO BABYLONIA OF JUDAH'S GUILT (_i.e._ the cause of calamity). For their resemblance (Zechariah 5:6) read with LXX their iniquity (_mg.)_ or rather their guilt. By the transference of...
TWO WOMEN. Perhaps denoting two nations. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. LIKE THE WINGS OF. STORK. Evidently. symbol of velocity rather than of character. STORK. An unclean bird, fond of its young, a...
_looked_ Rather, SAW. _came out_ or CAME FORTH (as in Zechariah 5:5-6), from the surrounding darkness upon the stage or scene of the vision. No meaning need be sought for the details of this verse....
THEN LIFTED I UP MINE EYES— There are great difficulties in explaining this part of the vision, and commentators are very much divided upon it. Calmet says, that the woman inclosed in the ephah denote...
CHAPTER XXXIII A VISION OF A WOMAN IN A FLYING BASKET Zechariah 5:5-11 RV. 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 fo...
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. Wickedness and idolatry removed from the Holy Land to Babylon, there...
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH VISIONS 1-4. A flying roll inscribed with curses comes down upon the earth. The previous visions had promised many blessings to the people; and the sixth and seventh teach that...
THE WIND _was_ IN THEIR WINGS] bore them along like long-winged birds ('storks') on a windy day....
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in Zechariah 1:7 to...
BEHOLD... — Here commences the third scene of the vision. We need not enter into the minute details of the verse, as they are, probably, introduced merely to give greater distinctness to the picture....
וָ אֶשָּׂ֨א עֵינַ֜י וָ אֵ֗רֶא וְ הִנֵּה֩
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
THE VISION OF THE FLYING ROLL Zechariah 5:1-11 This huge sheet of parchment, 30 by 15 feet, was covered with the solemn curses of the Law, on one side against the thief and on the other against false...
The vision of the flying roll represents the principle of law as it will be administered by Israel when she fulfils the true ideal. It must be considered as a sequence following the realization of tho...
Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two (k) women, and the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between t...
Women. They often represent nations; and here the Jews understand the Medes and Greeks, who punished the Chaldeans. St. Jerome rather thinks that the Assyrians and Chaldeans are meant, carrying away I...
"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 fo...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
The Prophet says here that such would be the change of things, that God would in turn afflict the Chaldeans, who had so cruelly treated the chosen people. And this is the reason why I think that iniqu...
Chapter 5 shews us the other side of the picture, that is to say, the judgment of the wicked in Israel in the last days. The prophet sees an immense roll filled with a curse for the wicked, for those...
THEN LIFTED I UP MINE EYES, AND LOOKED,.... This is not a new vision, but a continuation of the former, as appears from the "ephah" seen in it: AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME OUT TWO WOMEN; out of the same...
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the...
_Then lifted I up mine eyes_, &c. Great difficulties attend the interpretation of this part of the vision, and commentators are much divided upon it. According to Calmet, the woman enclosed in the eph...
THE SIXTH VISION - A FLYING SCROLL (vv. 1-4) The five previous visions have beautifully emphasized the grace of God in His restoring great blessing to Israel after years of sorrow and desolation. Th...
5-11 In this vision the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape of a corn measure. This betokened the Jewish nation. They are filling the measure of their iniquity; and when it is full, they sh...
THEN LIFTED I UP MINE EYES, AND LOOKED: see MALACHI 5:1. THERE CAME OUT, from the same place whence the ephah came, TWO WOMEN: the sinful nation was resembled to a woman, and now, to keep a decorum in...
Zechariah 5:9 raised H5375 (H8799) eyes H5869 looked H7200 (H8799) two H8147 women H802 coming H3318 ...
THE SEVENTH VISION. THE WOMAN IN THE MEASURING VESSEL - IDOLATRY TO BE REMOVED FROM THE LAND (ZECHARIAH 5:5). Not only must dishonesty and false witness be removed from the land, so also must all con...
CONTENTS: Vision of the flying roll and the ephah. CHARACTERS: God, Zechariah, angel. CONCLUSION: God's holy law reveals the righteous wrath of God against those who by swearing, affront God's majes...
Zechariah 5:2. _What seest thou? I see a flying roll._ Hebrews _meghilla,_ a parchment, a terrific scroll, twenty cubits in length, and ten in breadth, an oblong in measure like the courts of the temp...
_And this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah _ THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH This vision, like the preceding, is of a warning character, and somewhat more obscure in its symbolical apparatus...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 5:5 The seventh vision is closely linked to the sixth. It adds exile to the threat of destruction. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zechariah 5:5.] Seventh vision. Wickedness driven from Judah to mingle with its kindred elements in Babylon. ZECHARIAH 5:6. EPHAH] A familiar dry measure, denoting unjust dealings i...
EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 5:1 § 8. _The sixth vision: the flying roll._ ZECHARIAH 5:1 THEN I TURNED, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES; _i.e. _I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw the vision that follows. The pro...
So then I turned, and I lifted up my eyes, and I beheld a flying roll (Zechariah 5:1). Now this must have been a weird looking sight, a flying saucer kind of a thing. And he said unto me, What do you...
Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27; Deuteronomy 28:49; Hosea 8:1; Matthew 24:28
There came out — From the same place whence the ephah came. Their wings — They had wings, like the wings of storks, large and strong, and flew before the wind with great swiftness. The judgments came...