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    Zechariah · 13 verses

    Zechariah 2

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    Jerusalem is measured for width and length, only to be announced as a city without walls—a splendidly inconvenient result for the man carrying the measuring line.

    A city that outgrows its wallsvv. 1–5

    Zechariah sees a man with a measuring line, who is off to determine Jerusalem’s dimensions. Then the angels arrange an elaborate little relay: one departs, another arrives, and the newcomer tells the first to run to the young man with news that makes the measurement seem rather beside the point. Jerusalem will have no walls, because men and livestock will overflow it; instead, the LORD will be its wall of fire and its glory within.

    Messages, flight, and an unexplained sendervv. 6–9

    The call goes out to flee the land of the north and escape from the Daughter of Babylon. The reason given is scattering like the four winds of heaven, while the nations that plundered are threatened with becoming plunder for their own servants. In the middle of it stands a peculiarly unexplained chain of command: His Glory has sent the speaker, but the chapter does not say who or what His Glory is.

    A dwelling among the nationsvv. 10–13

    The Daughter of Zion is told to shout for joy because the speaker is coming to dwell among her. Many nations will join themselves to the LORD and become His people, while the LORD takes Judah as His portion in the Holy Land and chooses Jerusalem again. The chapter ends not with another summons to movement but with all people told to be silent: the LORD has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.

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    1. Zech 2:1Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

    2. Zech 2:2“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

    3. Zech 2:3Then the angel who was speaking with me went forth, and another angel came forward to meet him

    4. Zech 2:4and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

    5. Zech 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

    6. Zech 2:6“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.

    7. Zech 2:7“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”

    8. Zech 2:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—

    9. Zech 2:9I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

    10. Zech 2:10“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.

    11. Zech 2:11“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.

    12. Zech 2:12And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

    13. Zech 2:13Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 8Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
    • 5Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
    • 5Psalms 3:3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
    • 8Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
    • 5Zechariah 9:8But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.
    • 5Isaiah 60:18–19No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
    • 13Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.
    • 5Revelation 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
    • 8John 15:21–23But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
    • 1Ezekiel 40:3So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
    • 1Zechariah 1:16Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
    • 82 Thessalonians 1:6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
    • 8Psalms 105:13–15they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
    • 1Ezekiel 47:4Then he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through knee-deep water. Again he measured a thousand cubits and led me through waist-deep water.
    • 1Revelation 21:15The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.
    • 1Revelation 11:1Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.

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