Zechariah 5:1

The Flying Scroll

1 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.

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Zechariah 5:1 in Other Translations

KJV

1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

ESV

1 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

NLT

1 I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

MSG

1 I looked up again and saw - surprise! - a book on the wing! A book flying!

CSB

1 I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

Zechariah 5:1 Meaning and 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Zechariah 5:1 In-Context

1 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.

2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide. ”

3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.

4 The LORD Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”

5 Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

Cross References 1

1. S Psalms 40:7; S Jeremiah 36:4; Ezekiel 2:9; Revelation 5:1