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Zechariah

Chapter 4

Summary

The GOLDEN CANDLESTICK and the SPIRIT of the LORD. it records the vision of the lampstand with its seven lamps and the two olive trees providing it with oil. it features the definitive declaration to Zerubbabel: 'NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS'. it encourages the builders not to 'despise the day of small things' but to trust that the hands that laid the foundation shall also finish the work. it conclude with the identification of the two 'anointed ones' who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

1

And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

2

And said to me, "What seest you?" And I said, "I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:"

3

"And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof."

4

So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

5

Then the angel that talked with me answered and said to me, "Know you not what these be?" And I said, "No, my lord."

6

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, '[1] Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit,' says the LORD of hosts."

7

"Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, 'Grace, grace to it!'"

8

Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

9

"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you."

10

"For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth."

11

Then answered I, and said to him, "What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?"

12

And again I answered, and said to him, "What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?"

13

And he answered me and said, "Know you not what these be?" And I said, "No, my lord."

14

Then said he, "These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

Notes

[1]HEB: 'Lo ve-chayil ve-lo ve-choach' (Not by human force or strength). The pneumatological axiom for the rebuilding of the temple and the establishing of the kingdom.