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Zechariah 4:7-9
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Zechariah 4:7-9
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Oracle of Response
7 “What are you, you great mountain?[a] Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple[b] capstone with shoutings of ‘Grace! Grace!’[c] because of this.” 8 Moreover, the Lord’s message came to me as follows: 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this temple,[d] and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has sent me to you.
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- Zechariah 4:7 sn In context, the great mountain here must be viewed as a metaphor for the enormous task of rebuilding the temple and establishing the messianic kingdom (cf. TEV “Obstacles as great as mountains”).
- Zechariah 4:7 tn The word “temple” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent (cf. NLT “final stone of the Temple”).
- Zechariah 4:7 sn Grace is a fitting response to the idea that it was “not by strength and not by power” but by God’s gracious Spirit that the work could be done (cf. v. 6).
- Zechariah 4:9 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV).
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