Zechariah 2:1

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Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 40:3 : 3 When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.
  • Zech 1:16 : 16 The Oracle of Response“‘Therefore,’ this is what the LORD has said,‘I have become compassionate toward Jerusalem and will rebuild my temple in it,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.‘Once more a surveyor’s measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
  • Rev 11:1 : 1 The Fate of the Two Witnesses Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told,“Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.
  • Rev 21:15 : 15 The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.
  • Zech 1:18 : 18 Vision Two: The Four Horns(2:1) Once again I looked and this time I saw four horns.
  • Ezek 40:5 : 5 I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.
  • Ezek 47:4 : 4 Again he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was now knee deep. Once more he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was waist deep.

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    2I asked,“Where are you going?” He replied,“To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”

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    1Vision of the New Temple In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there.

    2By means of divine visions he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.

    3When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

    4The man said to me,“Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

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    6Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.

  • Zech 5:1-2
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  • Rev 11:1
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    1The Fate of the Two Witnesses Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told,“Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.

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    15The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

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    3When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

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    20Next the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.

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    28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

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    24Then he led me toward the south. I saw a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

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    3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.