the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Zechariah 2:1
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Then I looked up and saw a man holding a rope for measuring things.
Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I looked up and saw a man holding a line for measuring things.
And I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And I looked up, and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And Y reiside myn iyen, and siy, and lo! a man, and lo! in his hoond a litil coorde of meteris.
And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
This time I saw someone holding a measuring line,
And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.
Then I looked up and saw four horns.
And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
I lift vp mine eyes againe, and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I looked up and saw a man holding a string used to find the length of things.
I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I lift vp mine eyes againe and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I LIFTED up my eyes again and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a Man, - and, in his hand, a Measuring Line.
And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.
And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
I Lyft vp myne eyes agayne and loked: and beholde a man, with a measure lyne in his hande.
And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man, and in his hand a measuring line.
In another vision I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And I looked up and I saw, and look, a man, and in his hand was a measuring rope!
I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and, behold, A man, and a measuring line in his hand!
And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a man, and in his hand a measuring line.
I lift vp myne eyes agayne, & loked: and beholde, a man with a measure lyne in his honde.
I looked up and was surprised to see a man holding a tape measure in his hand. I said, "What are you up to?" "I'm on my way," he said, "to survey Jerusalem, to measure its width and length." Just then the Messenger-Angel on his way out met another angel coming in and said, "Run! Tell the Surveyor, ‘Jerusalem will burst its walls— bursting with people, bursting with animals. And I'll be right there with her'— God 's Decree—‘a wall of fire around unwalled Jerusalem and a radiant presence within.'"
I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there was a man with a measuring cord in his hand.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lifted: Zechariah 1:18
a man: Zechariah 1:16, Ezekiel 40:3, Ezekiel 40:5, Ezekiel 47:4, Revelation 11:1, Revelation 21:15
Reciprocal: Ezra 6:14 - through Job 38:5 - who hath stretched Jeremiah 31:39 - General Ezekiel 42:16 - the measuring reed Ezekiel 47:3 - the man Daniel 8:3 - I lifted Amos 7:7 - a wall Zechariah 9:8 - I will
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heavens and the eretz.
God called the dry land Eretz, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the eretz when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made eretz and the heavens.
No plant of the field was yet in the eretz, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the eretz. There was not a man to till the ground,
The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in `Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
The name of the second river is Gichon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Kush.
for in six days the LORD made heaven and eretz, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the day of Shabbat, and made it holy.
It is a sign between me and the children of Yisra'el forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and eretz, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked,.... And saw a third vision; which, as Kimchi owns, refers to the times of the Messiah; though it might be of use to the Jews then present, to encourage them to expect the rebuilding of Jerusalem, in a literal sense:
and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand: by whom is meant, not Nehemiah, nor Zerubbabel; see Zechariah 4:10 who were concerned in the building of Jerusalem; nor any mere man, nor even a created angel; for, though he may be the same with the other angel, that did not talk with the prophet, Zechariah 2:3 as Kimchi observes; seeing he seems to be superior to him that did; yet not a ministering spirit, but the Messiah, who in this book is often spoken of as a man;
Zechariah 2:3- : and by "the measuring line in his hand" may be meant eternal predestination, the Lamb's book of life, which is in his keeping; and is the measure and rule by which he proceeds in the calling, justification, and glorification of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven; or the Scriptures of truth, the measure and rule of doctrine, discipline, worship, and conversation; and according to which Christ forms, constitutes, and regulates Gospel churches; see Ezekiel 40:3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A man with a measuring line in his hand - Probably the Angel of the Lord, of whom Ezekiel has a like vision. Jerome: “He who before, when he lift up his eyes, had seen in the four horns things mournful, now again lifts up his eves to see a man, of whom it is written, “Behold a man whose name is the Branch” Zechariah 6:12; of whom we read above, “Behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees, which were in the bottom” Zechariah 1:8. Of whom too the Father saith; He builded My city, “whose builder and maker is God” Hebrews 11:10. He too is seen by Ezekiel in a description like this, “a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass” Ezekiel 40:3, that is, “burnished and shining as fire, with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed” Ezekiel 1:7. The office also seems to be one of authority, not to measure the actual length and breadth of Jerusalem, but to lay down what it should be, (Cyril), “to mark it out broad and very long.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II
The vision with which this chapter opens, portended great
increase and prosperity to Jerusalem. Accordingly Josephus
tells us, (Wars v. iv. 2,) that "the city, overflowing with
inhabitants, extended beyond its walls," as predicted in the
fourth verse, and acquired much glory during the time of the
Maccabees; although these promises, and particularly the
sublime image in the fifth verse, has certainly a still more
pointed reference to the glory and prosperity of the Christian
Church in the latter days, 1-5. See Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 22:1-21.
In consequence of these promises, the Jews, still inhabiting
Babylon and the regions round about, are called upon to hasten
home, that they might not be involved in the fate of their
enemies, who were destined to fall a prey to the nations which
they had formerly subdued; God's great love anti zeal for his
people moving him to glorify them by humbling all their
adversaries, 6-9.
The most gracious promises of God's presence with his Church,
and her consequent increase and prosperity, set forth in the
remaining verses, 10-13,
were to a certain extent fulfilled in the great number of
proselytes made to Judaism after the return from the captivity;
but shall be more fully accomplished after the restoration of
the Jews to the favour of God under the Gospel. "For if the
casting away of the natural Israel be the reconciling of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the
dead?"
NOTES ON CHAP II
Verse Zechariah 2:1. A man with a measuring - line in his hand. — Probably a representation of Nehemiah, who got a commission from Artaxerxes Longimanus to build up the walls of Jerusalem; for hitherto it had remained without being enclosed.
