Thematic Bible
Zechariah 5:1 (show verse)
Again I looked up, and I saw a scroll flying in the air!
Zechariah 5:2 (show verse)
And the angel said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits (thirty feet) and its width is ten cubits (fifteen feet).”
Zechariah 5:3 (show verse)
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals will be cut off according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears [oaths falsely] shall be cut off according to the writing on the other side.
Zechariah 5:4 (show verse)
I will send the curse out,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night in that house and consume it, both its timber and its stones.”
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Perjury condemned
Oaths » The jews » Condemned for false
Perjury » Perjury condemned
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Stealing
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Perjury
Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall have a curse upon their houses for
Symbols and similitudes » Roll
Vision » Of zechariah » Of the flying roll
Oaths » The jews » Condemned for false
Perjury » Perjury condemned
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Stealing
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Perjury
Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall have a curse upon their houses for
Symbols and similitudes » Roll
Vision » Of zechariah » Of the flying roll
Zechariah 5:5 (show verse)
Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said to me, “Now look up and see what this is going forth.”
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Zechariah 5:6 (show verse)
And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah (grain basket) going forth. This,” he continued, “is their appearance throughout the land
Zechariah 5:7 (show verse)
(and behold, a [round, flat] lead cover was lifted up); and there sat a woman inside the ephah.”
Zechariah 5:8 (show verse)
Then he said, “This is Wickedness (Godlessness)!” And he threw her back down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead cover on its opening.
Zechariah 5:9 (show verse)
Then I looked up, and there were two women coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
Zechariah 5:10 (show verse)
I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”
Zechariah 5:11 (show verse)
And he said to me, “To the land of Shinar (Babylon) to build a temple for her; and when it is prepared, she shall be set there on her own pedestal.”