Zechariah 2:3

New Living Translation

Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel went out to talk to him.

New American Standard Bible
And behold, the angel who had been speaking with me was going out, and another angel was going out to meet him.

New Century Version
Then the angel who was talking with me left, and another angel came out to meet him.

Update Bible Version
And, look, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Webster's Bible Translation
And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Amplified Bible
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

English Standard Version
And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him

World English Bible
Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And lo! the aungel that spak in me, wente out, and another aungel wente out in to the metyng of hym, and seide to hym,

English Revised Version
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him

Contemporary English Version
The angel who had spoken to me was leaving, when another angel came up to him

American Standard Version
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Bible in Basic English
And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,

Complete Jewish Bible
Next, Adonai showed me four artisans.

Darby Translation
And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth; and another angel went forth to meet him,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

King James Version (1611)
And behold, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth, and another Angel went out to meete him:

New Life Bible
Then the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

New Revised Standard
Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And beholde, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth: and another Angel went out to meete him,

George Lamsa Translation
And behold, the angel who was talking with me went forth, and another angel came to meet him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And lo! the messenger who was talking with me, coming forward, - and another messenger, coming forward to meet him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him.

Revised Standard Version
And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And behold, the angel that talked with me, went his way foorth: Then went there out another angel to meete him,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And, behold, the angel that spoke with me stood by, and another angel went forth to meet him,

Good News Translation
Then I saw the angel who had been speaking to me step forward, and another angel came to meet him.

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him.

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

King James Version
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

Lexham English Bible
And look, the angel who was talking to me was coming forward, and another angel was coming forward to meet him.

Literal Translation
And, behold, the angel who was talking with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

Young's Literal Translation
And lo, the messenger who is speaking with me is going out, and another messenger is going out to meet him,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And beholde, the angel that talked wt me, wente his waye forth. Then wete there out another angel to mete him,

New English Translation
At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

New King James Version
And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

Legacy Standard Bible
And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him

Contextual Overview

¹ When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² "Where are you going?" I asked. He replied, "I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is." ³ Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him. ⁴ The other angel said, "Hurry, and say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem will someday be so full of people and livestock that there won't be room enough for everyone! Many will live outside the city walls. ⁵ Then I, myself, will be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the Lord . And I will be the glory inside the city!'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the angel: Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:13, Zechariah 1:14, Zechariah 1:19, Zechariah 4:1, Zechariah 4:5, Zechariah 5:5

and another: Zechariah 1:8, Zechariah 1:10, Zechariah 1:11

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 25:38 - hath Ezekiel 1:14 - General Daniel 7:16 - one Daniel 8:13 - one saint Zechariah 3:1 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.

Genesis 2:11
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.

Genesis 2:13
The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14
The third branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth,.... See Zechariah 1:9 and he "went forth" from the place where the prophet was, with whom he had been conversing:

and another angel went out to meet him: the same that was seen among the myrtle trees, Zechariah 1:8 and here, with a measuring line in his hand, Zechariah 2:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The angel that talked with me went forth - Probably to receive the explanation which was given him for Zechariah; and another angel, a higher angel, since he gives him a commission, “went forth to meet him,” being (it seems probable) instructed by the Angel of the Lord, who laid down the future dimensions of the city. The indefiniteness of the description, another angel, implies that he was neither the Angel of the Lord, nor (were they different) Michael, or the man with the measuring line, but an angel of intermediate rank, instructed by one higher, instructing the lower, who immediately instructed Zechariah.