Zechariah 4:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And now for those that despised small beginnings; who they are is well known, and to them I say, and promise what they expected not. Despised the day of small things; of which Haggai 2:3. For, or but, notwithstanding they so much undervalued the meanness of the second temple, yet when finished they shall, with many others, rejoice in it. The plummet; the perpendicular with which Zerubbabel shall try the finished work, or the work near finishing. With those seven; in subordination to and co-working with the Divine Providence, expressed emblematically by the seven eyes, which were on that stone, of which Malachi 3:9. Though Zerubbabel were prudent in managing all the affairs of the Jews, Jerusalem, and the temple, yet not his prudence, but the infinite wisdom of God, gave success; and when the success appears in the finishing of the temple, then shall it be acknowledged an admirable work of the Divine wisdom, and the Jews shall confess that the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth, have been upon them in this work for good, and that God hath showed himself on their behalf.