Zechariah 4:2

I have looked Rather, I have seen, the word being the same as in the Angel's question, What seest thou?

A candlestick all of gold The word here used for candlestick (though not restricted to that, 2 Kings 4:10) is always used of the candlestick in the Tabernacle. That too, like this, was "all of gold." Exodus 25:31. "It has been calculated to have been worth £5,076, exclusive of workmanship." Dict. of Bible, Art. Candlestick. In Solomon's Temple there were ten candlesticks (1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:7; comp. Jeremiah 52:19), either in addition to, or instead of, the one in the Tabernacle. In Zerubbabel's Temple one candlestick only again was seen, as we learn from this passage and 1Ma 1:23; 1Ma 4:49; as well as from the sculpture on the Arch of Titus.

a bowl Rather, its bowl, or reservoir. The candlestick in the Tabernacle had no bowl of this kind. The "bowls" which it had (Exodus 25:31; Exodus 25:33-34; Exodus 37:17; Exodus 37:19-20; quite a different Heb. word from that here used, and rendered cupsin R. V.) were ornaments like scallop-shells, or the calix of a flower, on the shaft and branches of the candlestick. The lamps were trimmed daily by the priests (Exodus 27:21). "They were each supplied with cotton and half a log of the purest olive-oil (about two wine-glasses) which was sufficient to keep them burning during a long night." Dict. of Bible. The use of the same word as here for the bowl of a hanging lamp, suspended from the ceiling by a "silver cord," the giving way of which causes the lamp to fall to the ground and be shattered, Ecclesiastes 12:6, has led some to think that the lamp in Zechariah's vision was hanging also. This, however, is improbable. The addition of the bowl to the holy candlestick has its obvious meaning: "not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit," Zechariah 4:6. No human agency is now needed. The bowl yields a ceaseless supply of oil.

seven pipes to the seven lamps This has been variously interpreted to mean either one, two, or seven pipes connecting each lamp with the oil-bowl. The most natural interpretation of our present Hebrew text is, that each lamp of the candlestick was connected by seven pipes with the bowl which fed it with oil, and that the large and perfect number of pipes is intended to symbolise the plentifulness of the supply. There are seven pipes to each of the lamps. R. V.