Zechariah 5:1
Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
2 “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
3 Then 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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
- KJV
- Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
- WEB
- Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
- ASV
- Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.
- DARBY
- And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
- BLB
- And I turned and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying scroll.
- ÅB
- Så løftet jeg øynene mine opp igjen og fikk se en flyvende bokrull.
- OTB
- Jeg løftet mine øyne igjen og så, og se, det var en flygende bokrull.
- B1930
- Så løftet jeg atter mine øine op og fikk se en flyvende bokrull.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zechariah 5:2
“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
Read in contextEzekiel 2:9–10
Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
Read in contextIsaiah 8:1
Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:1–6
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Read in contextRevelation 10:8–11
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.”
Read in contextJeremiah 36:20–24
So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king.
Read in contextRevelation 5:1–14
Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:27–32
After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Read in context