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Zechariah 5:8

Zechariah 5:8
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he said, This is wickedness,.... A representation of wicked men, who are wickedness itself, as their inward part is, Psa 5:9 and particularly of the wicked one, the man of sin and son of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And cast her into the midst of the Ephah - As yet then the measure was not full. Ribera: “She had the lower part within the Ephah, but the upper, especially the head, without. Though the Jews had…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Zechariah 5:5-11

The foregoing vision was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood; and some think that the scope of it is to foretel the final destruction of the Jewish church and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

This is wickedness This woman that thou seest sitting in the ephah represents the wickedness of the whole land, gathered up, as it were, into one and personified.

the weight of lead Lit. the stone of…