It shall enter — This curse shall come with commission from me. It shall remain — It shall stick close to them and theirs like Gehazi's leprosy. And the stones — Nothing shall remain, as when both the timber and stones of a house are consumed.
Verse Zechariah 5:4. _INTO THE HOUSE OF HIM_] Babylon, the house or city of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a public _plunderer_, and a most glaring _idolater_....
I WILL BRING IT FORTH - Out of the treasure-house, as it were; as he says, “He bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures” Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 51:16; and, “Is not this laid up in store with Me,...
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...
A FLYING, _I.E._ UBIQUITOUS ROLL CONTAINING AN EFFECTUAL CURSE AGAINST THIEVES AND PERJURERS. In ZECHARIAH 5:3_ b_ RV does violence to the Heb. Wellhausen with a slight emendation reads: for everyone...
I WILL BRING. I have brought. SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. [is] the oracle of Jehovah of hosts. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3. ENTER INTO. lodge, or abide in. MY NAME. Emphatic for "Me Myself". See note on...
_it shall remain abide_, R. V., "until it has accomplished that for which it was sent, its utter destruction." Pusey. Mr Wright in his commentary quotes, in illustration of the curse abiding till it...
CHAPTER XXXII A VISION OF A FLYING SCROLL Zechariah 5:1-4 RV. Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a fly...
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his hou...
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...
SHALL REMAIN] RV 'shall abide,' but better, 'shall roost,' The idea is still of this roll as a huge bird of prey, descending upon the home of the evildoer and utterly consuming it. Zechariah's aim is...
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...
IT. — The curse, as borne on the scroll. BRING FORTH. — As it were, from His treasure-house, where all pre-ordained events are stored up (Deuteronomy 32:34). AND SHALL CONSUME IT. — In Herodotus (Boo...
הֹוצֵאתִ֗יהָ נְאֻם֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות וּ בָ֨אָה֙...
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
THE SIXTH VISION: THE WINGED VOLUME Zechariah 5:1 The religious and political obstacles being now removed from the future of Israel, Zechariah in the next two Visions beholds the land purged of its...
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...
_Thief. Nabuchodonosor is often so styled. (St. Jerome iv. 7.) This title comprises all the injuries done to man, as he that sweareth falsely refers to those where God's honour is concerned (Calmet) m...
"Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. (2) And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and t...
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...
He afterwards adds, _It shall come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears in my name falsely; and there will it reside, and it shall consume the hoarse, both the wood and th...
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...
I WILL BRING IT FORTH, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... The roll was come forth, and was flying abroad; but the curse and wrath of God, signified by it, is what God would bring forth out of his treasures,...
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his hous...
_The length thereof is twenty cubits_, &c. Such scrolls for writing were usually longer than they were broad; so this was represented as ten yards in length, and five in breadth. The roll was very lar...
THE VISION OF THE FLYING ROLL...
I will bring it forth, namely, the curse and the judgment in agreement with it, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND IT SHALL ENTER INTO THE HOUSE OF THE THIEF AND INTO THE HOUSE OF HIM THAT SWEARETH FALSELY...
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...
1-4 The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are rolls, in which God has written the great things of his law and gospel; they are flying rolls. God's word runs very swiftly, Psalms 147:15. This fl...
I WILL BRING IT FORTH; so exemplarily will I execute this judgment, that it shall appear I do it, my hand, saith God, shall be seen in it. IT SHALL ENTER, none shall be able to keep it out, this curse...
Zechariah 5:4 out H3318 (H8689) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 enter H935 (H8804) house...
THE SIXTH VISION. THE FLYING SCROLL - GOD'S MORAL DEMANDS GO FORTH TO BRING JUDGMENT (ZECHARIAH 5:1). Together with the establishment of the High Priesthood and the building of the Temple, it is neces...
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 I turned. .. and looked, and behold a flying roll _ THE FLYING ROLL The object of this discourse is to present to you the Scriptures as a phenomenon of the world around us. Consider them as an...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 5:1 The sixth vision is of a gigantic SCROLL, 30 by 15 feet (9 by 4.5 m), flying in midair. The scroll is a covenant document, like the tablets Moses received from the Lord...
CRITICAL NOTES.] FLYING ROLL] Vision sixth. ZECHARIAH 5:2.] Ten yards long and five yards broad. The size intended to indicate the number of curses contained; and FLYING] The velocity of judgments up...
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...
Deuteronomy 7:26; Habakkuk 2:9; James 5:2; James 5:3; Job 18:15;...