Zechariah 4:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 4

¹¹Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

Zechariah 4:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 4:3
And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Revelation 11:4
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

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Botany Candlestick Golden Candlestick Lamp Olive Symbols and Similitudes

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-14)

Enough is said to Zechariah to encourage him, and to enable him to encourage others, with reference to the good work of building the temple which they were now about, and that was the principal intention of the vision he saw; but still he is inquisitive about the particulars, which we will ascribe, not to any vain curiosity, but to the value he had for divine discoveries and the pleasure he took i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11-12. Zechariah three times (Zec 4:4, 11, 12) asks as to the two olives before he gets an answer; the question becomes more minute each time. What he at first calls “two olive trees,” he afterwards calls “branches,” as on closer looking he observes that the “branches” of the trees are the channels through which a continual flow of oil dropped into the bowl of the lamps (Zec 4:2), and that this is…