To build — Not in mercy, but in judgment. Of Shinar — Of Babylon whither many of the Jews fled, and others of them were forced by the Romans. Set there — There they shall be confined without hope of release. Her own base — They are settled upon the lees of their own unbelief: their wickedness is established on its own bases.
Verse Zechariah 5:11. _TO BUILD IT A HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR_] The land of _Shinar_ means _Babylon_; and _Babylon_ means _Rome_, in the Apocalypse. The _building the house_ for the woman imprison...
TO BUILD IT AN HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR - The name of Shinar, though strictly Babylonia, carries back to an older power than the world-empire of Babylon; which now too was destroyed. “In the land o...
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...
IT. for her. Hebrew Feminine. Singular. THE LAND OF SHINAR. Babylonia. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1; Gen
_To build it a house_ The word "it" is feminine (lit. HER), and may refer either to the ephah or to the woman, as the words, _on her own base_, at the end of the verse may also do. It is perhaps simpl...
TO BUILD IT— _To build her her._ The woman mentioned Zechariah 5:7. A house denotes a fixed and settled habitation, See Jeremiah 29:5. _THE LAND OF SHINAR_— That is, the land of Babylon, Genesis 11:2....
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...
SHINAR] i.e. Babylonia: see Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Isaiah 11:11. Here regarded as the counterpart of Zion and the proper home of all that is evil, especially of sins such as fraud and false swea...
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...
LAND OF SHINAR. — Where mankind had first organised a rebellion against God (Genesis 12:2); it was also the land of the Captivity of the Jews (Babylonia). This vision is a circumstantial symbolisation...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י לִ בְנֹֽות ־לָ֥הֿ בַ֖יִת
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...
And he said to me, To build for it an house in the land of (l) Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. (l) To remove the iniquity and affliction that came from Judah bec...
the land of Sennaar, where Babel or Babylon was built; (Genesis ix.) where note that Babylon, in holy writ, is often taken for the city of the devil, (that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked...
REFLECTIONS Reader! we have presented to us in this Chapter under a double vision, the awfulness of sin, and the universal influence of it; for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Pau...
"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...
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...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, TO BUILD IT AN HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR,.... That is, in the province of Babylon, as the Targum paraphrases it; for Babel, or Babylon, was in the land of Shinar, Genesis 10:10...
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. Ver. 11. _To build it an house in the land of Shinar_] That is, of Babyl...
_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 VISION OF THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH...
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar, typical from olden times as the land of rebellion against the Lord, Genesis 11:1; AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED AND SET THERE UPON HER OW...
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...
The angel gives him an answer fuller than his question, and first tells the prophet what was to be done with it. TO BUILD IT A HOUSE, not in mercy, but in judgment, as intending the next deportation s...
Zechariah 5:11 said H559 (H8799) build H1129 (H8800) house H1004 land H776 Shinar H8152 ready H3559 ...
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...
SHINAR That is, Babylonia. (Daniel 1:2)....
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. ⇐...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 5:11 The basket of wickedness, lifted up by the two women (v. Zechariah 5:9), is to be taken to a new location in the LAND OF SHINAR (Babylon
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 1:2; Deuteronomy 28:59; Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14: