Zechariah 5:11

"Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”"

Key Reflection

Zechariah 5:11 describes a vision where Zechariah asks an angel about a basket being carried away, likely symbolizing divine judgment or corruption. The original audience would have recognized the imagery of the ephah basket as a reference to economic and social injustice, given that it was a unit of measurement often associated with commercial transactions in ancient Israel.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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 of Babylon; which now too was destroyed. “In the land of Shinar”Genesis 11:2was that first attempt to array a world-empire against God, ere mankind was ye dispersed. And so it is the apter symbol of the antitheist or anti-Christian world, which by violence, art, falsehood, sophistry, wars against the truth. To this great world-empire it was to be removed; yet to live there, no longer cramped and confined as within an Ephah, but in pomp and splendor.

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