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Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
Zechariah 5:1 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
  • BSB Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
  • NKJV Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.
  • NASB Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
  • NLT I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • Zech 5:2He said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”
  • Ezek 2:9–10When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;
  • Isa 8:1Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
  • Rev 10:2He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
  • Jer 36:1–6In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
  • Rev 10:8–11The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
  • Rev 5:1–14I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
  • Jer 36:27–32Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
  • Jer 36:20–24They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Zechariah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on ZechariahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Branch who is both priest and king, the shepherd struck and the flock scattered, the king coming humble on a donkey, the one they pierced, the fountain opened for sin — Zechariah is dense with Christ.

How Zechariah 5:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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