Zechariah 5:1

A Vision of a Flying Scroll

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

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.

Zechariah 5:1 In-Context

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

2 And he said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits."

3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.

4 I will send it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones."

5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, "Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out."

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 36:2, 28