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Verse	Translation	Text
Zec 5:1	Strong Concordance	Then I turned [07725], and lifted up [05375] mine eyes [05869], and looked [07200], and behold a flying [05774] roll [04039].
	King James	Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
SIXTH VISION. THE FLYING ROLL. The fraudulent and perjuring transgressors of the law shall be extirpated from Judea. (Zac 5:1-4) flying roll--of papyrus, or dressed skins, used for writing on when paper was not known. It was inscribed with the words of the curse (Deu 27:15-26; Deu. 28:15-68). Being written implied that its contents were beyond all escape or repeal (Eze 2:9). Its "flying" shows that its curses were ready swiftly to visit the transgressors. It was unrolled, or else its dimensions could not have been seen (Zac 5:2). Being open to all, none could say in excuse he knew not the law and the curses of disobedience. As the previous visions intimated God's favor in restoring the Jewish state, so this vision announces judgment, intimating that God, notwithstanding His favor, did not approve of their sins. Being written on both sides, "on this and on that side" (Zac 5:3), VATABLUS connects it with the two tables of the law (Exo 32:15), and implies its comprehensiveness. One side denounced "him that sweareth falsely (Zac 5:4) by God's name," according to the third commandment of the first table, duty to God; the other side denounced theft, according to the eighth commandment, which is in the second table, duty to one's neighbor.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

SIXTH VISION. THE FLYING ROLL. The fraudulent and perjuring transgressors of the law shall be extirpated from Judea. (Zac 5:1-4)

flying roll--of papyrus, or dressed skins, used for writing on when paper was not known. It was inscribed with the words of the curse (Deu 27:15-26; Deu. 28:15-68). Being written implied that its contents were beyond all escape or repeal (Eze 2:9). Its "flying" shows that its curses were ready swiftly to visit the transgressors. It was unrolled, or else its dimensions could not have been seen (Zac 5:2). Being open to all, none could say in excuse he knew not the law and the curses of disobedience. As the previous visions intimated God's favor in restoring the Jewish state, so this vision announces judgment, intimating that God, notwithstanding His favor, did not approve of their sins. Being written on both sides, "on this and on that side" (Zac 5:3), VATABLUS connects it with the two tables of the law (Exo 32:15), and implies its comprehensiveness. One side denounced "him that sweareth falsely (Zac 5:4) by God's name," according to the third commandment of the first table, duty to God; the other side denounced theft, according to the eighth commandment, which is in the second table, duty to one's neighbor.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Hitherto all had been bright, full of the largeness of the gifts of God; of God's favor to His people ; the removal of their enemies ; the restoration and expansion and security of God's people and Church under His protection ; the acceptance of the present typical priesthood and the promise of Him, through whom there should be entire forgiveness : the abiding illumining of the Church by the Spirit of God . Yet there is a reverse side to all this, God's judgments on those who reject all His mercies. Augustine, de Civ. Del. 17:3. Ribera: "Prophecies partly appertain to those in whose times the sacred writers prophesied, partly to the mysteries of Christ. And therefore it is the custom of the prophets, at one time to chastise vices and set forth punishments, at another to predict the mysteries of Christ and the Church." And I turned and - Or, "Again I lifted up my eyes" Gen 26:18; Kg2 1:11, Kg2 1:13; Jer 18:14, having again sunk down in meditation on what he had seen, "and behold a roll flying;" as, to Ezekiel was shown "a hand with a roll of a book therein, and he spread it before me." Ezekiel's roll also was "written within and without, and there was written, therein lamentation and mourning and woe" Eze 2:9-10. It was a wide unfolded roll, as is involved in its flying; but its "flight signified the very swift coming of punishment; its flying from heaven that the sentence came from the judgment-seat above" (Ribera).

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
flying roll A "roll," in Scripture symbolism, means the written word whether of God or man (Eze 6:2); (Jer 36:2); (Jer 36:4); (Jer 36:6); etc: (Eze 3:1-3). Zechariah's eighth vision is of the rebuke of sin by the word of God. The two sins mentioned really transgress both tables of the law. To steal is to set aside our neighbor's right; to swear is to set aside God's claim to reverence. As always the law can only curse (Zac 5:3); (Gal 3:10-14).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Zac 5:1. "And I lifted up my eyes again, and saw, and behold a flying roll. Zac 5:2. And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying roll; its length twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits. Zac 5:3. And he said to me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the whole land: for every one that stealeth will be cleansed away from this side, according to it; and every one that sweareth will be cleansed away from that side, according to it. Zac 5:4. I have caused it to go forth, is the saying of Jehovah of hosts, and it will come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth by my name for deceit: and it will pass the night in the midst of his house, and consume both its beams and its stones." The person calling the prophet's attention to the vision, and interpreting it, is the angelus interpres. This is not specially mentioned here, as being obvious from what goes before. The roll (book-scroll, megillâh = megillath sēpher, Eze 2:9) is seen flying over the earth unrolled, so that its length and breadth can be seen. The statement as to its size is not to be regarded as "an approximative estimate," so that the roll would be simply described as of considerable size (Koehler), but is unquestionably significant. It corresponds both to the size of the porch of Solomon's temple (Kg1 6:3), and also to the dimensions of the holy place in the tabernacle, which was twenty cubits long and ten cubits broad. Hengstenberg, Hofmann, and Umbreit, following the example of Kimchi, assume that the reference is to the porch of the temple, and suppose that the roll has the same dimensions as this porch, to indicate that the judgment is "a consequence of the theocracy" or was to issue from the sanctuary of Israel, where the people assembled before the Lord. But the porch of the temple was neither a symbol of the theocracy, nor the place where the people assembled before the Lord, but a mere architectural ornament, which had no significance whatever in relation to the worship. The people assembled before the Lord in the court, to have reconciliation made for them with God by sacrifice; or they entered the holy place in the person of their sanctified mediators, the priests, as cleansed from sin, there to appear before God and engage in His spotless worship. The dimensions of the roll are taken from the holy place of the tabernacle, just as in the previous vision the candlestick was the mosaic candlestick of the tabernacle. Through the similarity of the dimensions of the roll to those of the holy place in the tabernacle, there is no intention to indicate that the curse proceeds from the holy place of the tabernacle or of the temple; for the roll would have issued from the sanctuary, if it had been intended to indicate this. Moreover, the curse or judgment does indeed begin at the house of God, but it does not issue or come from the house of God. Kliefoth has pointed to the true meaning in the following explanation which he gives: "The fact that the writing, which brings the curse upon all the sinners of the earth, has the same dimensions as the tabernacle, signifies that the measure will be meted out according to the measure of the holy place;" and again, "the measure by which this curse upon sinners will be meted out, will be the measure of the holy place." With this measure would all sinners be measured, that they might be cut off from the congregation of the Lord, which appeared before God in the holy place. The flight of the roll symbolized the going forth of the curse over the whole land. כּל־הארץ is rendered by Hofmann, Neumann, and Kliefoth "the whole earth," because "it evidently signifies the whole earth in v. Zac 4:10, Zac 4:14, and Zac 6:5" (Kliefoth). But these passages, in which the Lord of the whole earth is spoken of, do not prove anything in relation to our vision, in which כּל־הארץ is unmistakeably limited to the land of Canaan (Judah) by the antithesis in Zac 5:11, "the land of Shinar." If the sinners who are smitten by the curse proceeding over כּל־הארץ are to be carried into the land of Sinar, the former must be a definite land, and not the earth as the sum of all lands. It cannot be argued in opposition to this, that the sin of the land in which the true house of God and the true priesthood were, was wiped away by expiation, whereas the sin of the whole world would be brought into the land of judgment, when its measure was concluded by God; for this antithesis is foreign not only to this vision, but to the Scriptures universally. The Scriptures know nothing of any distribution or punishment of sins according to different lands, but simply according to the character of the sinners, viz., whether they are penitent or hardened. At the same time, the fact that כּל־הארץ denotes the whole of the land of Israel, by no means proves that our vision either treats of the "carrying away of Israel into exile," which had already occurred (Ros.), or "sets before them a fresh carrying away into exile, and one still in the future" (Hengstenberg), or that on the coming of the millennial kingdom the sin and the sinners will be exterminated from the whole of the holy land, and the sin thrown back upon the rest of the earth, which is still under the power of the world (Hofmann). The vision certainly refers to the remote future of the kingdom of God; and therefore "the whole land" cannot be restricted to the extent and boundaries of Judaea or Palestine, but reaches as far as the spiritual Israel or church of Christ is spread over the earth; but there is no allusion in our vision to the millennial kingdom, and its establishment within the limits of the earthly Canaan. The curse falls upon all thieves and false swearers. הנּשׁבּע in Zac 5:3 is defined more precisely in Zac 5:4, as swearing in the name of Jehovah for deceit, and therefore refers to perjury in the broadest sense of the word, or to all abuse of the name of God for false, deceitful swearing. Thieves are mentioned for the sake of individualizing, as sinners against the second table of the decalogue; false swearers, as sinners against the first table. The repetition of מזּה כּמוה points to this; for mizzeh, repeated in correlative clauses, signifies hinc et illinc, hence and thence, i.e., on one side and the other (Exo 17:12; Num 22:24; Eze 47:7), and can only refer here to the fact that the roll was written upon on both sides, so that it is to be taken in close connection with כּמוה: "on this side ... and on that, according to it" (the roll), i.e., according to the curse written upon this side and that side of the roll. We have therefore to picture the roll to ourselves as having the curse against the thieves written upon the one side, and that against the perjurers upon the other. The supposition that mizzeh refers to כּל־הארץ is precluded most decidedly, by the fact that mizzeh does not mean "thence," i.e., from the whole land, but when used adverbially of any place, invariably signifies "hence," and refers to the place where the speaker himself is standing. Moreover, the double use of mizzeh is at variance with any allusion to hâ'ârets, as well as the fact that if it belonged to the verb, it would stand after כּמוה, whether before or after the verb. Niqqâh, the niphal, signifies here to be cleaned out, like καθαρίζεσωαι in Mar 7:19 (cf. Kg1 14:10; Deu 17:12). This is explained in Zac 5:4 thus: Jehovah causes the curse to go forth and enter into the house of the thief and perjurer, so that it will pass the night there, i.e., stay there (lâneh third pers. perf. of lūn, from lânâh, to be blunted, like zûreh in Isa 59:5, and other verbal formations); it will not remain idle, however, but work therein, destroying both the house and sinners therein, so that beams and stones will be consumed (cf. Kg1 18:38). The suffix in כּלּתּוּ (for כּלּתהוּ, cf. Ges. 75, Anm. 19) refers to the house, of course including the inhabitants. The following nouns introduced with ואת are in explanatory apposition: both its beams and its stones. The roll therefore symbolizes the curse which will fall upon sinners throughout the whole land, consuming them with their houses, and thus sweeping them out of the nation of God.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Zac 5:1. "And I lifted up my eyes again, and saw, and behold a flying roll. Zac 5:2. And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying roll; its length twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits. Zac 5:3. And he said to me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the whole land: for every one that stealeth will be cleansed away from this side, according to it; and every one that sweareth will be cleansed away from that side, according to it. Zac 5:4. I have caused it to go forth, is the saying of Jehovah of hosts, and it will come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth by my name for deceit: and it will pass the night in the midst of his house, and consume both its beams and its stones." The person calling the prophet's attention to the vision, and interpreting it, is the angelus interpres. This is not specially mentioned here, as being obvious from what goes before. The roll (book-scroll, megillâh = megillath sēpher, Eze 2:9) is seen flying over the earth unrolled, so that its length and breadth can be seen. The statement as to its size is not to be regarded as "an approximative estimate," so that the roll would be simply described as of considerable size (Koehler), but is unquestionably significant. It corresponds both to the size of the porch of Solomon's temple (Kg1 6:3), and also to the dimensions of the holy place in the tabernacle, which was twenty cubits long and ten cubits broad. Hengstenberg, Hofmann, and Umbreit, following the example of Kimchi, assume that the reference is to the porch of the temple, and suppose that the roll has the same dimensions as this porch, to indicate that the judgment is "a consequence of the theocracy" or was to issue from the sanctuary of Israel, where the people assembled before the Lord. But the porch of the temple was neither a symbol of the theocracy, nor the place where the people assembled before the Lord, but a mere architectural ornament, which had no significance whatever in relation to the worship. The people assembled before the Lord in the court, to have reconciliation made for them with God by sacrifice; or they entered the holy place in the person of their sanctified mediators, the priests, as cleansed from sin, there to appear before God and engage in His spotless worship. The dimensions of the roll are taken from the holy place of the tabernacle, just as in the previous vision the candlestick was the mosaic candlestick of the tabernacle. Through the similarity of the dimensions of the roll to those of the holy place in the tabernacle, there is no intention to indicate that the curse proceeds from the holy place of the tabernacle or of the temple; for the roll would have issued from the sanctuary, if it had been intended to indicate this. Moreover, the curse or judgment does indeed begin at the house of God, but it does not issue or come from the house of God. Kliefoth has pointed to the true meaning in the following explanation which he gives: "The fact that the writing, which brings the curse upon all the sinners of the earth, has the same dimensions as the tabernacle, signifies that the measure will be meted out according to the measure of the holy place;" and again, "the measure by which this curse upon sinners will be meted out, will be the measure of the holy place." With this measure would all sinners be measured, that they might be cut off from the congregation of the Lord, which appeared before God in the holy place.

The flight of the roll symbolized the going forth of the curse over the whole land. כּל־הארץ is rendered by Hofmann, Neumann, and Kliefoth "the whole earth," because "it evidently signifies the whole earth in v. Zac 4:10, Zac 4:14, and Zac 6:5" (Kliefoth). But these passages, in which the Lord of the whole earth is spoken of, do not prove anything in relation to our vision, in which כּל־הארץ is unmistakeably limited to the land of Canaan (Judah) by the antithesis in Zac 5:11, "the land of Shinar." If the sinners who are smitten by the curse proceeding over כּל־הארץ are to be carried into the land of Sinar, the former must be a definite land, and not the earth as the sum of all lands. It cannot be argued in opposition to this, that the sin of the land in which the true house of God and the true priesthood were, was wiped away by expiation, whereas the sin of the whole world would be brought into the land of judgment, when its measure was concluded by God; for this antithesis is foreign not only to this vision, but to the Scriptures universally. The Scriptures know nothing of any distribution or punishment of sins according to different lands, but simply according to the character of the sinners, viz., whether they are penitent or hardened. At the same time, the fact that כּל־הארץ denotes the whole of the land of Israel, by no means proves that our vision either treats of the "carrying away of Israel into exile," which had already occurred (Ros.), or "sets before them a fresh carrying away into exile, and one still in the future" (Hengstenberg), or that on the coming of the millennial kingdom the sin and the sinners will be exterminated from the whole of the holy land, and the sin thrown back upon the rest of the earth, which is still under the power of the world (Hofmann). The vision certainly refers to the remote future of the kingdom of God; and therefore "the whole land" cannot be restricted to the extent and boundaries of Judaea or Palestine, but reaches as far as the spiritual Israel or church of Christ is spread over the earth; but there is no allusion in our vision to the millennial kingdom, and its establishment within the limits of the earthly Canaan. The curse falls upon all thieves and false swearers. הנּשׁבּע in Zac 5:3 is defined more precisely in Zac 5:4, as swearing in the name of Jehovah for deceit, and therefore refers to perjury in the broadest sense of the word, or to all abuse of the name of God for false, deceitful swearing. Thieves are mentioned for the sake of individualizing, as sinners against the second table of the decalogue; false swearers, as sinners against the first table. The repetition of מזּה כּמוה points to this; for mizzeh, repeated in correlative clauses, signifies hinc et illinc, hence and thence, i.e., on one side and the other (Exo 17:12; Num 22:24; Eze 47:7), and can only refer here to the fact that the roll was written upon on both sides, so that it is to be taken in close connection with כּמוה: "on this side ... and on that, according to it" (the roll), i.e., according to the curse written upon this side and that side of the roll. We have therefore to picture the roll to ourselves as having the curse against the thieves written upon the one side, and that against the perjurers upon the other. The supposition that mizzeh refers to כּל־הארץ is precluded most decidedly, by the fact that mizzeh does not mean "thence," i.e., from the whole land, but when used adverbially of any place, invariably signifies "hence," and refers to the place where the speaker himself is standing. Moreover, the double use of mizzeh is at variance with any allusion to hâ'ârets, as well as the fact that if it belonged to the verb, it would stand after כּמוה, whether before or after the verb. Niqqâh, the niphal, signifies here to be cleaned out, like καθαρίζεσωαι in Mar 7:19 (cf. Kg1 14:10; Deu 17:12). This is explained in Zac 5:4 thus: Jehovah causes the curse to go forth and enter into the house of the thief and perjurer, so that it will pass the night there, i.e., stay there (lâneh third pers. perf. of lūn, from lânâh, to be blunted, like zûreh in Isa 59:5, and other verbal formations); it will not remain idle, however, but work therein, destroying both the house and sinners therein, so that beams and stones will be consumed (cf. Kg1 18:38). The suffix in כּלּתּוּ (for כּלּתהוּ, cf. Ges. 75, Anm. 19) refers to the house, of course including the inhabitants. The following nouns introduced with ואת are in explanatory apposition: both its beams and its stones. The roll therefore symbolizes the curse which will fall upon sinners throughout the whole land, consuming them with their houses, and thus sweeping them out of the nation of God.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
A flying roll - A volume, or book spread out at large, flying in the air, swiftly.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Behold a flying roll - This was twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad; the prophet saw it expanded, and flying. Itself was the catalogue of the crimes of the people, and the punishment threatened by the Lord. Some think the crimes were those of the Jews; others, those of the Chaldeans. The roll is mentioned in allusion to those large rolls on which the Jews write the Pentateuch. One now lying before me is one hundred and fifty-three feet long, by twenty-one inches wide, written on fine brown Basle goat-skin; some time since brought from Jerusalem, supposed to be four hundred years old.

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⁴ I will bring it forth [03318], saith [05002] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], and it shall enter [0935] into the house [01004] of the thief [01590], and into the house [01004] of him that sweareth [07650] falsely [08267] by my name [08034]: and it shall remain [03885] in the midst [08432] of his house [01004], and shall consume [03615] it with the timber [06086] thereof and the stones [068] thereof.

¹⁵ And Moses [04872] turned [06437], and went down [03381] from the mount [02022], and the two [08147] tables [03871] of the testimony [05715] were in his hand [03027]: the tables [03871] were written [03789] on both [08147] their sides [05676]; on the one side and on the other were they written [03789].

³ Then said [0559] he unto me, This is the curse [0423] that goeth forth [03318] over the face [06440] of the whole earth [0776]: for every one that stealeth [01589] shall be cut off [05352] as on this side according [03644] to it; and every one that sweareth [07650] shall be cut off [05352] as on that side according [03644] to it.

² And he said [0559] unto me, What seest [07200] thou? And I answered [0559], I see [07200] a flying [05774] roll [04039]; the length [0753] thereof is twenty [06242] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] thereof ten [06235] cubits [0520].

⁹ And when I looked [07200], behold, an hand [03027] was sent [07971] unto me; and, lo, a roll [04039] of a book [05612] was therein;

¹⁵ Cursed [0779] be the man [0376] that maketh [06213] any graven [06459] or molten image [04541], an abomination [08441] unto the LORD [03068], the work [04639] of the hands [03027] of the craftsman [02796], and putteth [07760] it in a secret [05643] place. And all the people [05971] shall answer [06030] and say [0559], Amen [0543].
¹⁶ Cursed [0779] be he that setteth light [07034] by his father [01] or his mother [0517]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
¹⁷ Cursed [0779] be he that removeth [05253] his neighbour's [07453] landmark [01366]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
¹⁸ Cursed [0779] be he that maketh the blind [05787] to wander [07686] out of the way [01870]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
¹⁹ Cursed [0779] be he that perverteth [05186] the judgment [04941] of the stranger [01616], fatherless [03490], and widow [0490]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²⁰ Cursed [0779] be he that lieth [07901] with his father's [01] wife [0802]; because he uncovereth [01540] his father's [01] skirt [03671]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²¹ Cursed [0779] be he that lieth [07901] with any manner of beast [0929]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²² Cursed [0779] be he that lieth [07901] with his sister [0269], the daughter [01323] of his father [01], or the daughter [01323] of his mother [0517]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²³ Cursed [0779] be he that lieth [07901] with his mother in law [02859]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²⁴ Cursed [0779] be he that smiteth [05221] his neighbour [07453] secretly [05643]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²⁵ Cursed [0779] be he that taketh [03947] reward [07810] to slay [05221] an innocent [05355] person [05315] [01818]. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].
²⁶ Cursed [0779] be he that confirmeth [06965] not all the words [01697] of this law [08451] to do [06213] them. And all the people [05971] shall say [0559], Amen [0543].

¹ Then I turned [07725], and lifted up [05375] mine eyes [05869], and looked [07200], and behold a flying [05774] roll [04039].
² And he said [0559] unto me, What seest [07200] thou? And I answered [0559], I see [07200] a flying [05774] roll [04039]; the length [0753] thereof is twenty [06242] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] thereof ten [06235] cubits [0520].
³ Then said [0559] he unto me, This is the curse [0423] that goeth forth [03318] over the face [06440] of the whole earth [0776]: for every one that stealeth [01589] shall be cut off [05352] as on this side according [03644] to it; and every one that sweareth [07650] shall be cut off [05352] as on that side according [03644] to it.
⁴ I will bring it forth [03318], saith [05002] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], and it shall enter [0935] into the house [01004] of the thief [01590], and into the house [01004] of him that sweareth [07650] falsely [08267] by my name [08034]: and it shall remain [03885] in the midst [08432] of his house [01004], and shall consume [03615] it with the timber [06086] thereof and the stones [068] thereof.

⁹ And when I looked [07200], behold, an hand [03027] was sent [07971] unto me; and, lo, a roll [04039] of a book [05612] was therein;
¹⁰ And he spread [06566] it before [06440] me; and it was written [03789] within [06440] and without [0268]: and there was written [03789] therein lamentations [07015], and mourning [01899], and woe [01958].

¹⁴ Will a man leave [05800] the snow [07950] of Lebanon [03844] which cometh from the rock [06697] of the field [07704]? or shall the cold [07119] flowing [05140] waters [04325] that come from another place [02114] be forsaken [05428]?

¹³ And he sent [07971] again [07725] a captain [08269] of the third [07992] fifty [02572] with his fifty [02572]. And the third [07992] captain [08269] of fifty [02572] went up [05927], and came [0935] and fell [03766] on his knees [01290] before [05048] Elijah [0452], and besought [02603] him, and said [01696] unto him, O man [0376] of God [0430], I pray thee, let my life [05315], and the life [05315] of these fifty [02572] thy servants [05650], be precious [03365] in thy sight [05869].

¹¹ Again [07725] also he sent [07971] unto him another [0312] captain [08269] of fifty [02572] with his fifty [02572]. And he answered [06030] and said [01696] unto him, O man [0376] of God [0430], thus hath the king [04428] said [0559], Come down [03381] quickly [04120].

¹⁸ And Isaac [03327] digged [02658] again [07725] the wells [0875] of water [04325], which they had digged [02658] in the days [03117] of Abraham [085] his father [01]; for the Philistines [06430] had stopped [05640] them after [0310] the death [04194] of Abraham [085]: and he called [07121] their names [08034] after the names [08034] by which [0834] his father [01] had called [07121] them.

¹⁰ For [1063] as many as [3745] are [1526] of [1537] the works [2041] of the law [3551] are [1526] under [5259] the curse [2671]: for [1063] it is written [1125], Cursed [1944] is every one [3956] that [3739] continueth [1696] not [3756] in [1722] all things [3956] which [3588] are written [1125] in [1722] the book [975] of the law [3551] to do [4160] them [846].
¹¹ But [1161] that [3754] no man [3762] is justified [1344] by [1722] the law [3551] in the sight [3844] of God [2316], it is evident [1212]: for [3754], The just [1342] shall live [2198] by [1537] faith [4102].
¹² And [1161] the law [3551] is [2076] not [3756] of [1537] faith [4102]: but [235], The man [444] that doeth [4160] them [846] shall live [2198] in [1722] them [846].
¹³ Christ [5547] hath redeemed [1805] us [2248] from [1537] the curse [2671] of the law [3551], being made [1096] a curse [2671] for [5228] us [2257]: for [1063] it is written [1125], Cursed [1944] is every one [3956] that hangeth [2910] on [1909] a tree [3586]:
¹⁴ That [2443] the blessing [2129] of Abraham [11] might come [1096] on [1519] the Gentiles [1484] through [1722] Jesus [2424] Christ [5547]; that [2443] we might receive [2983] the promise [1860] of the Spirit [4151] through [1223] faith [4102].

¹ Moreover he said [0559] unto me, Son [01121] of man [0120], eat [0398] that thou findest [04672]; eat [0398] this roll [04039], and go [03212] speak [01696] unto the house [01004] of Israel [03478].
² So I opened [06605] my mouth [06310], and he caused me to eat [0398] that roll [04039].
³ And he said [0559] unto me, Son [01121] of man [0120], cause thy belly [0990] to eat [0398], and fill [04390] thy bowels [04578] with this roll [04039] that I give [05414] thee. Then did I eat [0398] it; and it was in my mouth [06310] as honey [01706] for sweetness [04966].

⁶ Therefore go [0935] thou, and read [07121] in the roll [04039], which thou hast written [03789] from my mouth [06310], the words [01697] of the LORD [03068] in the ears [0241] of the people [05971] in the LORD'S [03068] house [01004] upon the fasting [06685] day [03117]: and also thou shalt read [07121] them in the ears [0241] of all Judah [03063] that come out [0935] of their cities [05892].

⁴ Then Jeremiah [03414] called [07121] Baruch [01263] the son [01121] of Neriah [05374]: and Baruch [01263] wrote [03789] from the mouth [06310] of Jeremiah [03414] all the words [01697] of the LORD [03068], which he had spoken [01696] unto him, upon a roll [04039] of a book [05612].

² Take [03947] thee a roll [04039] of a book [05612], and write [03789] therein all the words [01697] that I have spoken [01696] unto thee against Israel [03478], and against Judah [03063], and against all the nations [01471], from the day [03117] I spake [01696] unto thee, from the days [03117] of Josiah [02977], even unto this day [03117].

² Son [01121] of man [0120], set [07760] thy face [06440] toward the mountains [02022] of Israel [03478], and prophesy [05012] against them,

³⁸ Then the fire [0784] of the LORD [03068] fell [05307], and consumed [0398] the burnt sacrifice [05930], and the wood [06086], and the stones [068], and the dust [06083], and licked up [03897] the water [04325] that was in the trench [08585].

⁵ They hatch [01234] cockatrice [06848]' eggs [01000], and weave [0707] the spider's [05908] web [06980]: he that eateth [0398] of their eggs [01000] dieth [04191], and that which is crushed [02116] breaketh out [01234] into a viper [0660].

¹² And the man [0376] that will do [06213] presumptuously [02087], and will not hearken [08085] unto the priest [03548] that standeth [05975] to minister [08334] there before the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], or unto the judge [08199], even that man [0376] shall die [04191]: and thou shalt put away [01197] the evil [07451] from Israel [03478].

¹⁰ Therefore, behold, I will bring [0935] evil [07451] upon the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], and will cut off [03772] from Jeroboam [03379] him that pisseth [08366] against the wall [07023], and him that is shut up [06113] and left [05800] in Israel [03478], and will take away [01197] the remnant [0310] of the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], as a man taketh away [01197] dung [01557], till it be all gone [08552].

¹⁹ Because [3754] it entereth [1531] not [3756] into [1519] his [846] heart [2588], but [235] into [1519] the belly [2836], and [2532] goeth out [1607] into [1519] the draught [856], purging [2511] all [3956] meats [1033]?

⁷ Now when I had returned [07725], behold, at the bank [08193] of the river [05158] were very [03966] many [07227] trees [06086] on the one side and on the other.

²⁴ But the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] stood [05975] in a path [04934] of the vineyards [03754], a wall [01447] being on this side, and a wall [01447] on that side.

¹² But Moses [04872]' hands [03027] were heavy [03515]; and they took [03947] a stone [068], and put [07760] it under him, and he sat [03427] thereon; and Aaron [0175] and Hur [02354] stayed up [08551] his hands [03027], the one on the one side [0259], and the other on the other side [0259]; and his hands [03027] were steady [0530] until the going down [0935] of the sun [08121].

¹¹ And he said [0559] unto me, To build [01129] it an house [01004] in the land [0776] of Shinar [08152]: and it shall be established [03559], and set [03240] there upon her own base [04369].

⁵ And the angel [04397] answered [06030] and said [0559] unto me, These are the four [0702] spirits [07307] of the heavens [08064], which go forth [03318] from standing [03320] before the Lord [0113] of all the earth [0776].

¹⁴ Then said [0559] he, These are the two [08147] anointed [03323] ones [01121], that stand [05975] by the Lord [0113] of the whole earth [0776].

¹⁰ For who hath despised [0936] the day [03117] of small things [06996]? for they shall rejoice [08055], and shall see [07200] the plummet [068] [0913] in the hand [03027] of Zerubbabel [02216] with those seven [07651]; they are the eyes [05869] of the LORD [03068], which run to and fro [07751] through the whole earth [0776].

³ And the porch [0197] before [06440] the temple [01964] of the house [01004], twenty [06242] cubits [0520] was the length [0753] thereof, according to the breadth [07341] of the house [01004]; and ten [06235] cubits [0520] was the breadth [07341] thereof before the house [01004].

⁹ And when I looked [07200], behold, an hand [03027] was sent [07971] unto me; and, lo, a roll [04039] of a book [05612] was therein;

¹ Then I turned [07725], and lifted up [05375] mine eyes [05869], and looked [07200], and behold a flying [05774] roll [04039].