Zechariah 2

A Man With a Measuring Line

1 Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
3 While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him
4 and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
5 And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
6 “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.
7 “Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!”
8 For this is what the LORD Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye—
9 I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.[a] Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.
10 “Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the LORD.
11 “Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
13 Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”

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Cross References 29

  • 1. S Ezekiel 40:3; S Zechariah 1:16; Revelation 21:15
  • 2. S Ezekiel 38:11
  • 3. S Isaiah 49:20; S Jeremiah 30:19; S Jeremiah 33:22
  • 4. Zechariah 14:11
  • 5. S Isaiah 26:1; Ezekiel 42:20
  • 6. S Isaiah 10:17
  • 7. S Psalms 85:9; S Isaiah 11:10; S Isaiah 24:23; Revelation 21:23
  • 8. S Psalms 125:2
  • 9. S Psalms 46:5; S Ezekiel 38:14
  • 10. S Psalms 44:11
  • 11. S Ezekiel 17:21; S Ezekiel 37:9
  • 12. Matthew 24:31; Mark 13:27
  • 13. S Isaiah 42:7
  • 14. S Isaiah 48:20; Jeremiah 3:18
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 32:10
  • 16. S Isaiah 14:2; S Jeremiah 12:14; S Habakkuk 2:8
  • 17. S Isaiah 48:16; Zechariah 4:9; Zechariah 6:15
  • 18. S Zephaniah 3:14
  • 19. S Isaiah 23:12; S Zephaniah 3:14
  • 20. Zechariah 9:9
  • 21. S Exodus 25:8; Leviticus 26:12; S Numbers 23:21; Zechariah 8:3
  • 22. S Revelation 21:3
  • 23. S Jeremiah 24:7; S Micah 4:2; Zec 8:8,20-22
  • 24. Zechariah 4:9; Zechariah 6:15
  • 25. S Exodus 34:9; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalms 33:12; Jeremiah 10:16
  • 26. Jeremiah 40:5
  • 27. S Deuteronomy 12:5; S Isaiah 14:1; Zechariah 1:17
  • 28. S Exodus 14:14; S Isaiah 41:1; Habakkuk 2:20
  • 29. S Deuteronomy 26:15

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "says after … eye: " 9"“I … plunder them.”"

Zechariah 2 Commentaries

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