Zechariah 4

1The angel who talked with me came again and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:5 · Jer 31:26 · Dan 8:18 · Dan 10:8 · Zech 1:9 · Zech 1:13 · +5 more

2He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;Cross-references: Ex 25:31 · Ex 37:17 · Ex 40:24 · 1Ki 7:49 · 1Chr 28:15 · 2Chr 4:7 · +9 more

3and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”Cross-references: Judg 9:9 · Zech 4:11 · Zech 4:14 · Rom 11:17 · Rom 11:24 · Rev 11:4

4I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”Cross-references: Dan 7:16 · Dan 12:8 · Zech 1:9 · Zech 1:19 · Zech 4:12 · Zech 5:6 · +3 more

5Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”Cross-references: Gen 41:16 · Ps 139:6 · Dan 2:30 · Zech 1:9 · Zech 4:13 · Mark 4:13 · +1 more

6Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Num 27:16 · 2Chr 14:11 · 2Chr 32:7 · Ezra 5:2 · Ps 20:6 · Ps 33:16 · +13 more

7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”Cross-references: Ezra 3:11 · Ezra 6:15 · Job 38:6 · Ps 114:4 · Ps 114:6 · Ps 118:22 · +29 more

8Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

9“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.Cross-references: Ezra 3:8 · Ezra 5:16 · Ezra 6:14 · Isa 48:16 · Zech 2:8 · Zech 2:11 · +8 more

10Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”Cross-references: 2Chr 16:9 · Ezra 3:12 · Neh 4:2 · Job 8:7 · Prov 4:18 · Prov 15:3 · +14 more

11Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”Cross-references: Zech 4:3 · Rev 11:4

12I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”Cross-references: Hag 1:1 · Matt 20:23 · Rev 11:4

13He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”Cross-references: Zech 4:5 · Heb 5:11

14Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”Cross-references: Ex 29:7 · Ex 40:15 · Lev 8:12 · Deut 10:8 · Josh 3:11 · Josh 3:13 · +21 more