Zechariah · 11 verses
Zechariah 5
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The chapter
What happens here
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A woman called Wickedness is shoved into a measuring basket and carried off by two stork-winged women to a house in Shinar.
The flying scrollvv. 1–4
First comes a scroll with the improbable manners of a bird: it flies, yet pauses long enough to have its dimensions given as twenty cubits by ten. The angel explains that it is a curse going over all the land, aimed at thieves and those who swear falsely by the LORD’s name. It enters such a man’s house and stays there until the building—timbers, stones, and all—has been destroyed.
The basket and its passengervv. 5–11
Then the vision changes its luggage. A measuring basket appears, said to be the iniquity in all the land, and beneath its raised lead cover sits a woman. “This is Wickedness,” says the angel, before pushing her down and sealing the lid. Two women then arrive with wind in their stork-like wings, hoist the basket between heaven and earth, and carry it to Shinar, where it is to receive a house and a pedestal—rather an elaborate address for such a passenger.
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Zech 5:1Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
Zech 5:2“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
Zech 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
Zech 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
Zech 5:5Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
Zech 5:6“What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
Zech 5:7And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.
Zech 5:8“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.
Zech 5:9Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
Zech 5:10“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.
Zech 5:11“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 100 passages were voted onto 10 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 11Genesis 11:2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
- 11Genesis 10:10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- 3Exodus 20:15You shall not steal.
- 4Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
- 4Habakkuk 2:9–11Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- 11Daniel 1:2And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
- 1Zechariah 5:2“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- 4Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- 6Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- 7Revelation 17:1–18Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
- 11Isaiah 11:11On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- 11Genesis 14:1In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
- 1Ezekiel 2:9–10Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- 3Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
- 3James 5:12Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.
- 4Leviticus 14:34–45“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
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