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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Zechariah 4 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/zechariah/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Zechariah 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zechariah/3.htm" title="Zechariah 3">◄</a> Zechariah 4 <a href="../zechariah/5.htm" title="Zechariah 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/zechariah/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">A Vision of a Golden Lampstand</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “This is the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts has sent me to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.</p><p class="regular">“These seven are the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which range through the whole earth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks oil">a</a></sup></span> is poured out?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew two sons of new oil">b</a></sup></span> who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">oil</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">two</span> sons of new oil</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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