◄ Zechariah 2:1 ►
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Good News Translation
In another vision I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

New Revised Standard Version
I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Contemporary English Version
This time I saw someone holding a measuring line,

New American Bible
I raised my eyes and looked, and there was a man with a measuring cord in his hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.

lifted.

Zechariah 1:18 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.

a man.

Zechariah 1:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 40:3,5 And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate. . . .

Ezekiel 47:4 And again he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water up to the knees.

Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein.

Revelation 21:15 And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall.

Context
The Vision of the Measuring Line
1And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.2And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.…
Cross References
Revelation 11:1
And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein.

Jeremiah 31:39
And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,

Ezekiel 40:3
And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.

Ezekiel 47:3
And when the man that had the line in his hand went out towards the east, he measured a thousand cubits: and he brought me through the water up to the ankles.

Zechariah 1:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1:21
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