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Zechariah 4 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees
The Lampstand and the Olive Trees
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:1 - Now the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:2 - And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I said, “I am looking, and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - “Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:4 - So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:5 - Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:6 - So he answered and said to me:

“This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel:
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
Says the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:7 - ‘Who are you, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:8 - Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:9 - “The hands of Zerubbabel
Have laid the foundation of this temple;[fn]
His hands shall also finish it.
Then you will know
That the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:10 - For who has despised the day of small things?
For these seven rejoice to see
The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
They are the eyes of the LORD,
Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - Then I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees—at the right of the lampstand and at its left?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And I further answered and said to him, “What are these two olive branches that drip into the receptacles[fn] of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:13 - Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:14 - So he said, “These are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”
NKJV Footnotes
Literally house
Literally into the hands of
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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