Zechariah 5:11

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 simplest to understand the reference in both cases to be to the woman, whose destination was by implication asked in the prophet's question, Zechariah 5:10. The house may be either a dwelling-place, or possibly a temple, "as Dagon (1 Samuel 5:2-5), or Ashtaroth (Ib. 1 Samuel 5:10), or Baal (2 Kings 10:23), had their houses or temples, a great idol temple in which the God of this world should be worshipped." Pusey.

in the land of Shinar i.e. Babylonia, with a reference perhaps to "that first attempt to array a world-empire against God," which took place in "the land of Shinar." Genesis 11:2.

it shall be established i.e. the house.

and set there Rather, and she (the woman) shall be made to rest there. The whole verse will then read, as in R. V., To build her an house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

The Eighth Vision. The Four Chariots, Zechariah 6:1-8. In this vision four chariots appear to the prophet coming upon the scene, along the valley or defile between two mountains of brass or copper, Zechariah 5:1. The chariots are drawn by horses of different colours, Zechariah 5:2-3. In answer to the prophet's enquiry, Zechariah 5:4, the Interpreting Angel informs him that these chariots represent the four spirits or winds of heaven, which are coming forth from the immediate presence of God, charged with the commands which He had there laid upon them, Zechariah 5:5. Of three of these chariots, distinguishing them by the colours of the horses which are yoked to them, the angel then announces the destination. Passing by the first chariot to which red horses were attached, he says that the second which had black horses was on its way to "the north country," the land of Babylon, to be followed thither by the third which was drawn by white horses. The fourth chariot, with its speckled, or piebald horses, was about to visit "the south country," Zechariah 5:6; but inasmuch as its horses were specially "strong," their commission was extended, and the whole earth granted them for their course, Zechariah 5:7. Upon this the Interpreting Angel cries aloud to the prophet in the name of Jehovah, that by the mission of these His messengers of wrath, His sore displeasure (chap. Zechariah 1:15) against His enemies and the enemies of His people in the north country is appeased, and His spirit quieted, Zechariah 5:8.