Zechariah 2
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Zechariah 2
Third Vision: The Man with a Measuring Line
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Ezek 40.3; Zech 1.18 # 2.1 2.5 in Heb I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2#Ezek 40.3; Rev 21.15–17Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.” 3Then the angel who spoke with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him 4#Jer 30.19; Ezek 38.11and said to him, “Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like unwalled villages because of the multitude of people and animals in it. 5#Isa 26.1; Rev 21.23For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.”
Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles
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Isa 48.20; Ezek 17.21 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord. 7Up! Escape to Zion, you who live with daughter Babylon. 8#Deut 32.10; Isa 60.7–9For thus said the Lord of hosts after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye.#2.8 Heb his eye 9#Isa 11.15; Zech 4.9For I am going to raise#2.9 Or wave my hand against them, and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me. 10#Isa 12.6; Ezek 37.27; Zeph 3.14Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion! For I will come and dwell in your midst, says the Lord. 11Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord on that day and shall be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. 12#Deut 32.9; Zech 1.17The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
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Ps 78.65; Isa 51.9; Hab 2.20 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
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