Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Zechariah 5:5
Then the angel went forth - From the choirs of angels, among whom, in the interval, he had retired, as before (Zephaniah 2:3 (7 Hebrew)) he had gone forth to meet another angel.
Then the angel went forth - From the choirs of angels, among whom, in the interval, he had retired, as before (Zephaniah 2:3 (7 Hebrew)) he had gone forth to meet another angel.
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...
ANGEL, See note on Zechariah 1:9. SEE. This is the seventh vision. See the Structure on p. 1281....
_went forth_ or, _came forth_. During the intervals between the visions, when the prophet was overpowered by, or lost in contemplation of, what he had seen, the Interpreting Angel falls into the backg...
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...
ANGEL... WENT FORTH. — The first scene of the vision disappears, and with it, apparently, the angel-interpreter, who now “went forth,” _i.e.,_ appeared again (see Note on Zechariah 2:3); so, too, “tha...
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...
וַ יֵּצֵ֕א הַ מַּלְאָ֖ךְ הַ דֹּבֵ֣ר בִּ֑י
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 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...
Here I stop; I intended to add all the verses, but I can hardly finish the whole today. It will be enough for us to understand that this is the second part of the vision, in which the Prophet, in orde...
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 THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME WENT FORTH,.... From the place where he was, and had been interpreting the vision of the flying roll, unto another more convenient for showing and explaining the fol...
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. Ver. 5. _Lift up now thine eyes and see_] No doubt. saith Calvin here...
_The angel that talked with me went forth_ Or rather, _went on_, as the verb יצא often signifies; (see 2 Chronicles 21:19; Jeremiah 25:32;) and so it may signify at the end of this verse, and in the n...
THE VISION OF THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH...
Then the angel that talked with me, who acted as the interpreter of all these visions, WENT FORTH, so that there was a pause in the revelations of the Lord, AND SAID UNTO ME, LIFT UP NOW THINE EYES AN...
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...
WENT FORTH; or went on, proceeded, or, as we read it, went forth from some more retired place, though he do not tell us what it was, or where he was with the prophet when the last vision appeared. LIF...
Zechariah 5:5 angel H4397 talked H1696 (H8802) out H3318 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) Lift H5375 ...
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...
Zechariah 1:14; Zechariah 1:19; Zechariah 1:9; Zechariah 2:3; Zec