Zechariah 5:1-11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 5:1-4

We do not find that the prophet now needed to be awakened, as he did Zech. 4:1. Being awakened then, he kept wakeful after; nay, now he needs not be so much as called to look about him, for of his own accord he turns and lifts up his eyes. This good men sometimes get by their infirmities, they make them the more careful and circumspect afterwards. Now observe, I. What it was that the prophet saw; he looked up into the air, and behold a flying roll. A vast large scroll of parchment which had... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

The foregoing vision was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood; and some think that the scope of it is to foretel the final destruction of the Jewish church and nation and the dispersion of the Jews, when, by crucifying Christ and persecuting his gospel, they should have filled up the measure of their iniquities; therefore it is industriously set out in obscure figures and expressions, ?lest the plain denunciation of the second overthrow of temple and state... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:1

Then I turned, and lift up mine eyes, and looked ,.... The prophet turned himself from looking upon the candlestick and olive branches, having had a full and clear understanding of them, and looked another way, and saw another vision: and behold a flying roll , a volume or book flying in the air; it being usual for books, which were written on parchment, to be rolled up in the form of a cylinder; whence they were called rolls or volumes. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:2

And he said unto me ,.... That is, the angel: What seest thou? and I answered, I see a flying roll, the length whereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits ; so that it was a very large one, a volume of a very uncommon size, especially it may so seem to us; but in other nations they have very long rolls or volumes, even longer than this: the Russians write their acts, protests, and other court matters, on long rolls of paper, some twenty ells, some thirty, and some... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:3

Then said he unto me, This is the curse ,.... So the law of Moses is called, because it has curses written in it, Deuteronomy 27:15 which curse is not causeless, but is according to law and justice; it is from the Lord, and is no other than the wrath of the Almighty; and, wherever it lights, it will remain and continue for ever. Vitringa, on Isaiah 24:6 says, this is the curse which Isaiah there prophesies of, which had its accomplishment in the times of Antiochus; but there the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts ,.... The roll was come forth, and was flying abroad; but the curse and wrath of God, signified by it, is what God would bring forth out of his treasures, according to his purposes and declarations, and execute upon sinners; which shows the certainty of it, and that there is no escaping it: and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall remain in the midst of his house,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:5

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 following one; and, as it should seem, took the prophet along with him: and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth ; either out of the temple or out of heaven, into some open place, where it might be seen. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:6

And I said, What is it ?.... After he had lifted up his eyes and seen it, he desires to know both what it was, and what was the meaning of it: and he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth ; which was a measure much in use with the Jews, Exodus 16:36 it is the same with the "bath", and held above seven wine gallons. The Targum interprets this of such who dealt in false measures, whose sin is exposed, and their punishment set forth; but rather it designs the measure of iniquity... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:7

And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead ,.... By the angel; since he is afterwards said to cast it upon the mouth of the "ephah". A cicar, or talent of silver, with the Jews, was equal to three thousand shekels, as may be gathered from Exodus 38:24 and weighed a hundred and twenty five pounds F1 Epiphanius de Mensuris & Ponderibus. ; or, as others, a hundred and twenty F2 Hebraei apud Buxtorf. Lex. Heb. in rad. ככר . , and, according to the more exact account of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:8

And he said, This is wickedness ,.... A representation of wicked men, who are wickedness itself, as their inward part is, Psalm 5:9 and particularly of the wicked one, the man of sin and son of perdition, the Roman antichrist and apocalyptic beast; who, though he is called by this title, "his Holiness", his true and proper name is "wickedness"; ο ανομος , that wicked lawless one, 2 Thessalonians 2:8 yea, wickedness itself, being extremely wicked, a sink of sin and of all... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 5:1-4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:8

Group of Brands