Zechariah 4:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?

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  • Matt 20:23 : 23 They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.
  • Rev 11:4 : 4 These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.
  • Hag 1:1 : 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

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    11 And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

  • Zech 4:13-14
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    88%

    13 And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

    14 And he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is by the Lord of all the earth.

  • Zech 4:1-5
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    86%

    1 And the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me as a man out of his sleep.

    2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;

    3 And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

    4 And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?

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    4 These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.

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    31 And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

    32 It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.

    33 Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

    34 And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:

    35 And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.

    36 The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.

    37 Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it.

  • Exod 37:17-22
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    17 Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:

    18 It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;

    19 Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;

    20 And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower;

    21 And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.

    22 The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.

  • Zech 6:4
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    4 And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?

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    8 One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

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  • Zech 1:9-10
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    9 Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.

    10 And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.

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    12 And turning to see the voice which said these words to me, I saw seven gold vessels with lights burning in them;

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    16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

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    2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

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    20 Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    2 Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.

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    32 On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.

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    2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.

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    4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lights.

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    2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

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