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Sunday, November 24th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Hebrew Names Version

Zechariah 5:1

Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Vision;   Scofield Reference Index - Roll;   Thompson Chain Reference - Rolls, of Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Roll;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Prophecy of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Old Testament;   Writing;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Flying;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Book;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abraham, Testament of;   Manuscripts;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I looked up again, and I saw a flying scroll.
New American Standard Bible
Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
New Century Version
I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.
Update Bible Version
Then again I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw a flying roll.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
Amplified Bible
Again I looked up, and I saw a scroll flying in the air!
English Standard Version
Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!
World English Bible
Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y was conuertid, and reiside myn iyen, and siy, and lo! a book fleynge.
English Revised Version
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
Berean Standard Bible
Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
Contemporary English Version
When I looked the next time, I saw a flying scroll,
American Standard Version
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.
Bible in Basic English
Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.
Complete Jewish Bible
Again I raised my eyes, and I saw in front of me a flying scroll.
Darby Translation
And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a flying roll.
King James Version (1611)
Then I turned, and lift vp mine eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying roule.
New Living Translation
I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.
New Life Bible
I looked up again and saw a flying book.
New Revised Standard
Again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I turned me, and lifted vp mine eyes and looked, and beholde, a flying booke.
George Lamsa Translation
THEN I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked, and beheld a flying scroll.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And once more lifted I mine eyes, and looked, - and lo! a Flying Volume.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.
Revised Standard Version
Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I turned me, lifting vp myne eyes, & loked, and beholde, a fleeing booke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.
Good News Translation
I looked again, and this time I saw a scroll flying through the air.
Christian Standard Bible®
I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.
King James Version
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
Lexham English Bible
I looked up again, and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll!
Literal Translation
And I again lifted up my eyes and looked, and, behold, a flying scroll!
Young's Literal Translation
And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a flying roll.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I turned me liftynge vp myne eyes, & loked, & beholde, a flyenge boke.
THE MESSAGE
I looked up again and saw—surprise!—a book on the wing! A book flying!
New English Translation
Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!
New King James Version
Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I lifted up my eyes again and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

Contextual Overview

1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll. 2 He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits." 3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. 4 I will cause it to go out," says the LORD of Hosts, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

roll: Zechariah 5:2, Isaiah 8:1, Jeremiah 36:1-6, Jeremiah 36:20-24, Jeremiah 36:27-32, Ezekiel 2:9, Ezekiel 2:10, Revelation 5:1-14, Revelation 10:2, Revelation 10:8-11

Reciprocal: Isaiah 9:8 - sent a word Jeremiah 36:4 - upon Daniel 8:3 - I lifted Habakkuk 2:9 - that coveteth an evil covetousness Zechariah 1:18 - lifted Zechariah 5:5 - Lift Zechariah 6:1 - I turned

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
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.
Genesis 5:26
Metushelach lived after he became the father of Lamekh seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:27
All the days of Metushelach were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.
Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noach and of Shem, Ham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Shet, Enosh,
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
Matthew 1:1
The book of the generation of Yeshua the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Avraham.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I turned, and lift up mine eyes, and looked,.... The prophet turned himself from looking upon the candlestick and olive branches, having had a full and clear understanding of them, and looked another way, and saw another vision:

and behold a flying roll, a volume or book flying in the air; it being usual for books, which were written on parchment, to be rolled up in the form of a cylinder; whence they were called rolls or volumes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hitherto all had been bright, full of the largeness of the gifts of God; of God’s favor to His people ; the removal of their enemies ; the restoration and expansion and security of God’s people and Church under His protection ; the acceptance of the present typical priesthood and the promise of Him, through whom there should be entire forgiveness : the abiding illumining of the Church by the Spirit of God . Yet there is a reverse side to all this, God’s judgments on those who reject all His mercies. Augustine, de Civ. Del. 17:3. Ribera: “Prophecies partly appertain to those in whose times the sacred writers prophesied, partly to the mysteries of Christ. And therefore it is the custom of the prophets, at one time to chastise vices and set forth punishments, at another to predict the mysteries of Christ and the Church.”

And I turned and - Or, “Again I lifted up my eyes” Gen 26:18; 2 Kings 1:11, 2 Kings 1:13; Jeremiah 18:14, having again sunk down in meditation on what he had seen, “and behold a roll flying;” as, to Ezekiel was shown “a hand with a roll of a book therein, and he spread it before me.” Ezekiel’s roll also was “written within and without, and there was written, therein lamentation and mourning and woe” Ezekiel 2:9-10. It was a wide unfolded roll, as is involved in its flying; but its “flight signified the very swift coming of punishment; its flying from heaven that the sentence came from the judgment-seat above” (Ribera).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V

The vision of the large flying roll, with the angel's

explanation, 1-4.

The vision of the ephah, and of the woman sitting on it, with

the signification, 5-11.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Zechariah 5:1. Behold a flying roll. — This was twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad; the prophet saw it expanded, and flying. Itself was the catalogue of the crimes of the people, and the punishment threatened by the Lord. Some think the crimes were those of the Jews; others, those of the Chaldeans. The roll is mentioned in allusion to those large rolls on which the Jews write the Pentateuch. One now lying before me is one hundred and fifty-three feet long, by twenty-one inches wide, written on fine brown Basle goat-skin; some time since brought from Jerusalem, supposed to be four hundred years old.


 
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