Zechariah 5:8 NIV

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 5:8

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 5:8

Verse 8 Now the angel adds, that a thin piece of lead was cast over the mouth of the measure, and that wickedness was cast into the measure. The expression, that wickedness was thrown into the measure, may be explained in two ways — either that God would not permit so much liberty to the devil to lead the Jews to sin as before; for how comes it that men abandon themselves to every evil, except that God forsakes them, and at the same time delivers them up to Satan, that he may exercise his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

§ 9. The seventh vision: the woman in the ephah. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

Worldliness in the Church. I. SADLY PREVALENT . "This is their eye"—what they mind and what they lust after. There is a climax. First two classes of sinners are figured, next one great indistinguishable mass. Then "wickedness" is personified, as one woman. This teaches how worldliness is: 1 . Common. 2 . Absorbing. 3 . Debasing—corrupting all that is beautiful and fair. II. SPECIALLY OFFENSIVE . Bad in the world; infinitely worse in the Church. 1 . Opposed to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

A materialistic community. "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. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth," etc. Here is another (the seventh) vision in the wonderful series of visions which the prophet had that night. This is one of the strangest of the whole, one, perhaps, admitting of no certain interpretation—a " woman in the ephah." We know what an "ephah" was. It... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:6-11

The vindication of Law. "Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes," etc. The last vision was one of warning. This, as we take it, is one of judgment. The subject appears, however, to be the same. What the prophet previously dreaded and threatened he now describes as fulfilled. In other words, in a mystical fashion, and in language only partially understood by himself, he foretells how the warning just uttered by him would be, on the one hand, ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:8

This is wickedness. This woman is the personification of wickedness. It is very common to find backsliding Israel represented as a faithless and adulterous woman (comp. Isaiah 1:21 ; Jeremiah 2:20 ; Hosea 2:5 ; and the parable of the two women in Ezekiel 23:1-49 .). He cast it; her— the woman. As the woman rose, or tried to rise, from the ephah, the angel flung her down into it. It is possible, as some commentators suppose, that the ephah into which wickedness is thrust... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 5:8

And cast her into the midst of the Ephah - As yet then the measure was not full. Ribera: “She had the lower part within the Ephah, but the upper, especially the head, without. Though the Jews had slain the prophets and done many grievous things, the greatest sin of all remained to be done. But when they had crucified Christ and persecuted the Apostles and the Gospel, the measure was full; she was wholly within the Ephah, no part remained without, so that the measure was filled.”And he cast the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 5:5-8

Zechariah 5:5-8. 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 next, where it occurs again. And I said, What is it? What does this signify, or, what thing is this? And he said, This is an ephah An ephah was a measure containing somewhat less than our bushel, and consequently too small for a woman to sit in; we must therefore understand... read more

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 5:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:5-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 5:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 5:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 5:5-8

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