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The Fifth Vision: A Lampstand and Two Olive Trees

Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me up in the same way that a man is awakened from sleep. He said to me, “What do you see?”

I said, “Look! Right there, I see a lampstand, made entirely of gold, with a basin on top of it, with seven lamps on it, and there are seven channels leading to the lamps that are on top of it.[a] There are two olive trees beside it, one to the right of the bowl, and one to its left.”

I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

The angel who was speaking with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”

I answered, “No, my lord.”

So he said to me:

This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel. Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Armies. What are you, you great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a level plain. Then he will bring out the capstone with shouts of “Grace! Grace be with it!”

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will also finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.

10 For who despises the day of small things? They will rejoice to see the plumb line[b] in the hand of Zerubbabel.

These seven are the eyes of the Lord that range throughout the whole earth.

11 Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees to the right and left of the lampstand?” 12 I asked him a second time, “What are the two olive branches that are beside the two gold conduits that pour out the golden oil?”

13 He said to me, “Don’t you know what these are?”

I said, “No, my lord.”

14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones[c] who stand by the Lord of all the earth.”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 4:2 Or perhaps there are seven spouts and seven wicks on each lamp. The details concerning the construction of the lampstand are uncertain.
  2. Zechariah 4:10 The builder uses the plumb line to show that the walls he has built are straight, not leaning. The modern equivalent is a level.
  3. Zechariah 4:14 Literally sons of oil