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Verse Zechariah 5:11. _TO BUILD IT A HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR_]
The land of _Shinar_ means _Babylon_; and _Babylon_ means _Rome_, in
the Apocalypse. The _building the house_ for the woman imprison...
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TO BUILD IT AN HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR - The name of Shinar,
though strictly Babylonia, carries back to an older power than the
world-empire of Babylon; which now too was destroyed. “In the land
o...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The sixth vision (Zechariah 5:1) _
2. The seventh vision (Zechariah 5:5)
Zechariah 5:1. The three remaining night visions are of a different
character. The first visions the prophet h...
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THE TRANSFERENCE TO BABYLONIA OF JUDAH'S GUILT (_i.e._ the cause of
calamity). For their resemblance (Zechariah 5:6) read with LXX their
iniquity (_mg.)_ or rather their guilt. By the transference of...
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IT. for her. Hebrew Feminine. Singular.
THE LAND OF SHINAR. Babylonia. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 10:10;
Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1; Gen
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_To build it a house_ The word "it" is feminine (lit. HER), and may
refer either to the ephah or to the woman, as the words, _on her own
base_, at the end of the verse may also do. It is perhaps simpl...
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TO BUILD IT— _To build her her._ The woman mentioned Zechariah 5:7.
A house denotes a fixed and settled habitation, See Jeremiah 29:5.
_THE LAND OF SHINAR_— That is, the land of Babylon, Genesis 11:2....
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CHAPTER XXXIII
A VISION OF A WOMAN IN A FLYING BASKET
Zechariah 5:5-11
RV. 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 fo...
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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.
Wickedness and idolatry removed from the Holy Land to Babylon, there...
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THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH VISIONS
1-4. A flying roll inscribed with curses comes down upon the earth.
The previous visions had promised many blessings to the people; and
the sixth and seventh teach that...
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SHINAR] i.e. Babylonia: see Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Isaiah 11:11.
Here regarded as the counterpart of Zion and the proper home of all
that is evil, especially of sins such as fraud and false swea...
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A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS.
Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of
Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in
Zechariah 1:7 to...
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LAND OF SHINAR. — Where mankind had first organised a rebellion
against God (Genesis 12:2); it was also the land of the Captivity of
the Jews (Babylonia).
This vision is a circumstantial symbolisation...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י לִ בְנֹֽות ־לָ֥הֿ
בַ֖יִת
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THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH
Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
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THE VISION OF THE FLYING ROLL
Zechariah 5:1-11
This huge sheet of parchment, 30 by 15 feet, was covered with the
solemn curses of the Law, on one side against the thief and on the
other against false...
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The vision of the flying roll represents the principle of law as it
will be administered by Israel when she fulfils the true ideal. It
must be considered as a sequence following the realization of tho...
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And he said to me, To build for it an house in the land of (l) Shinar:
and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
(l) To remove the iniquity and affliction that came from Judah bec...
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the land of Sennaar, where Babel or Babylon was built; (Genesis ix.)
where note that Babylon, in holy writ, is often taken for the city of
the devil, (that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked...
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REFLECTIONS
Reader! we have presented to us in this Chapter under a double vision,
the awfulness of sin, and the universal influence of it; for all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Pau...
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"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. (6) And I
said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth fo...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his
prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes
a great deal far...
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Chapter 5 shews us the other side of the picture, that is to say, the
judgment of the wicked in Israel in the last days. The prophet sees an
immense roll filled with a curse for the wicked, for those...
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AND HE SAID UNTO ME, TO BUILD IT AN HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR,....
That is, in the province of Babylon, as the Targum paraphrases it; for
Babel, or Babylon, was in the land of Shinar,
Genesis 10:10...
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And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and
it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Ver. 11. _To build it an house in the land of Shinar_] That is, of
Babyl...
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_Then lifted I up mine eyes_, &c. Great difficulties attend the
interpretation of this part of the vision, and commentators are much
divided upon it. According to Calmet, the woman enclosed in the eph...
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THE VISION OF THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH...
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And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar,
typical from olden times as the land of rebellion against the Lord,
Genesis 11:1; AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED AND SET THERE UPON HER OW...
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THE SIXTH VISION - A FLYING SCROLL
(vv. 1-4)
The five previous visions have beautifully emphasized the grace of God
in His restoring great blessing to Israel after years of sorrow and
desolation. Th...
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5-11 In this vision the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape
of a corn measure. This betokened the Jewish nation. They are filling
the measure of their iniquity; and when it is full, they sh...
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The angel gives him an answer fuller than his question, and first
tells the prophet what was to be done with it. TO BUILD IT A HOUSE,
not in mercy, but in judgment, as intending the next deportation
s...
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Zechariah 5:11 said H559 (H8799) build H1129 (H8800) house H1004 land
H776 Shinar H8152 ready H3559 ...
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THE SEVENTH VISION. THE WOMAN IN THE MEASURING VESSEL - IDOLATRY TO BE
REMOVED FROM THE LAND (ZECHARIAH 5:5).
Not only must dishonesty and false witness be removed from the land,
so also must all con...
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SHINAR
That is, Babylonia. (Daniel 1:2)....
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CONTENTS: Vision of the flying roll and the ephah.
CHARACTERS: God, Zechariah, angel.
CONCLUSION: God's holy law reveals the righteous wrath of God against
those who by swearing, affront God's majes...
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Zechariah 5:2. _What seest thou? I see a flying roll._ Hebrews
_meghilla,_ a parchment, a terrific scroll, twenty cubits in length,
and ten in breadth, an oblong in measure like the courts of the
temp...
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_And this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah _
THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH
This vision, like the preceding, is of a warning character, and
somewhat more obscure in its symbolical apparatus...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Zechariah 5:5.] Seventh vision. Wickedness driven from Judah to mingle
with its kindred elements in Babylon.
ZECHARIAH 5:6. EPHAH] A familiar dry measure, denoting unjust dealings
i...
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EXPOSITION
ZECHARIAH 5:1
§ 8. _The sixth vision: the flying roll._
ZECHARIAH 5:1
THEN I TURNED, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES; _i.e. _I lifted up mine eyes
again, and saw the vision that follows. The pro...
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So then I turned, and I lifted up my eyes, and I beheld a flying roll
(Zechariah 5:1).
Now this must have been a weird looking sight, a flying saucer kind of
a thing.
And he said unto me, What do you...
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Daniel 1:2; Deuteronomy 28:59; Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Genesis
14:
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To build — Not in mercy, but in judgment. Of Shinar — Of Babylon
whither many of the Jews fled, and others of them were forced by the
Romans. Set there — There they shall be confined without hope of
r...