Zechariah 5:11

Shinar

That is, Babylonia. (Daniel 1:2).

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To build it an house in the land of Shinar - The name of Shinar, though strictly Babylonia, carries back to an older power than the world-empire...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he said to me, To build for it an house in the land of (l) Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. (l) To remove t...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Transference to Babylonia of Judah's Guilt ( i.e. the cause of calamity). For their resemblance ( Zechariah 5:6 ) read with LXX their iniquity...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

it . for her. Hebrew Feminine. Singular. the land of Shinar . Babylonia. Reference to Pentateuch ( Genesis 10:10 ; Genesis 11:2 ; Genesis 14:1 ;...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. To build it a house in...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

To build it— To build her her. The woman mentioned Zechariah 5:7-9 . A house denotes a fixed and settled habitation, See Jeremiah 29:5 . Th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. Wickedness and...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sixth and Seventh Visions 1-4. A flying roll inscribed with curses comes down upon the earth. The previous visions had promised many blessings...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Shinar ] i.e. Babylonia: see Genesis 10:10 ; Genesis 11:2 ; Isaiah 11:11 . Here regarded as the counterpart of Zion and the proper home of all th...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15 . Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents record...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Land of Shinar. — Where mankind had first organised a rebellion against God ( Genesis 12:2 ); it was also the land of the Captivity of the Jews (Ba...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7-21 ; Zechariah 2:1-13 ; Zechariah 3:1-10 ; Zechariah 4:1-14 ; Zechariah 5:1-11 ; Zechariah 6:1-8 TH...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Vision of the Flying Roll Zechariah 5:1-11 This huge sheet of parchment, 30 by 15 feet, was covered with the solemn curses of the Law, on o...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The vision of the flying roll represents the principle of law as it will be administered by Israel when she fulfils the true ideal. It must be consid...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. (6) And I said, What...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Reader! we have presented to us in this Chapter under a double vision, the awfulness of sin, and the universal influence of it; for all...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar ,.... That is, in the province of Babylon, as the Targum paraphrases it; for Babel,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. Ver. 11. To build i...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then lifted I up mine eyes , &c. Great difficulties attend the interpretation of this part of the vision, and commentators are much divided upon...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Sixth Vision - A Flying Scroll (vv. 1-4) The five previous visions have beautifully emphasized the grace of God in His restoring great bless...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Ephah. B. C. 520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The angel gives him an answer fuller than his question, and first tells the prophet what was to be done with it. To build it a house, not in mercy,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Seventh Vision. The Woman in the Measuring Vessel - Idolatry to be Removed From the Land ( Zechariah 5:5-11 ). Not only must dishonesty and fa...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Zechariah 5:5 .] Seventh vision. Wickedness driven from Judah to mingle with its kindred elements in Babylon. Zechariah 5:6...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Zechariah 5:2 . What seest thou? I see a flying roll. Hebrews meghilla, a parchment, a terrific scroll, twenty cubits in length, and ten in brea...
The Biblical Illustrator

And this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah The woman in the ephah This vision, like the preceding, is of a warning character,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Zechariah 5:1-38 § 8. The sixth vision: the flying roll. Zechariah 5:1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes; i.e....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vision of the Woman in the Ephah
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar, typical from olden times as the land of rebellion against the Lord, Genesis 11:1-9...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 1:2 ; Deuteronomy 28:59 ; Genesis 10:10 ; Genesis 11:2 ; Genesis 14:1 ; Hosea 3:4 ; Isaiah 11:11 ; Jeremiah 29:28 ; Luke 21:24
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

To build — Not in mercy, but in judgment. Of Shinar — Of Babylon whither many of the Jews fled, and others of them were forced by the Romans. Set t...

¹¹ And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Related Commentaries of Zechariah 5:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zechariah 5:11