Zechariah 4:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” And I said,“No, sir.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 4:5 : 5 He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded,“No, sir.”
  • Heb 5:11-12 : 11 The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. 12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

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    3 There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left.”

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    6 Therefore he told me,“This is the LORD’s message to Zerubbabel:‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”

  • Zech 4:11-12
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    11 Next I asked the messenger,“What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the menorah?”

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