1Sa 9:9, Jer 1:11-14, Amo 7:8, 8:2, Zec 4:2, 5:2, 5-11, Mat 25:32-33 | TSK | STEP

the end.There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."

Jer 1:12; 5:31; La 4:18; Eze 7:2; 3:7,10; 12:23; 29:8

I will not.

7:8

Zechariah 4:2

What.

5:2; Jer 1:11-13

a candlestick.

Ex 25:31-38; 37:17-24; 40:24,25; 1Ki 7:49,50; 1Ch 28:15; 2Ch 4:7

2Ch 4:20-22; 13:11; Jer 52:19; Mt 5:14-16; Re 1:12,20; 2:1

a bowl. Heb. her bowl.

1Ki 7:50

seven.

Ex 25:37; Re 4:5

seven pipes to the seven camps. or, seven several pipes to thelamps, etc.

Zechariah 5:2

What.

4:2; Jer 1:11-14; Am 7:8

flying.

Zep 1:14; 2Pe 2:3

the length.

Ge 6:11-13; Re 18:5

Zechariah 5:5-11

the angel.

1:9,14,19; 2:3; 4:5

Lift.

This is an ephah."The meaning of this vision," says Archbishop Newcome, "seems to be, that the Babylonish captivity had happened on account of the wickedness of the Jews, and that a like dispersion would befall them if they relapsed into like crimes." The woman who sat in the {ephah} was an emblem of the Jewish nation; the casting the weight of lead on the mouth of the {ephah} seems to mean the condemnation of the Jews, after they had filled up the measure of their iniquities by crucifying the Messiah; the "two women, with wings like a stork, and the wind in their wings," seem emblematical of the Roman armies and the rapidity of their conquests; and their lifting up the {ephah} and carrying it through the air, to build it a house in Shinar or Babylon, where it was fixed on its own basis, represents the taking of Jerusalem, the dispersion of the Jews, and the long continuance of that calamity, as a just punishment of their unbelief.

Eze 44:10,11; Am 8:5

talent. or, weighty piece.

Isa 13:1; 15:1; 22:11

is.

Jer 3:1,2; Eze 16:1-63; 23:1-49; Ho 1:1-3:5; Re 17:1-18

This.

Ge 15:16; Mt 23:32; 1Th 2:16

the weight.

7; Ps 38:4; Pr 5:22; La 1:14; Am 9:1-4

for.

De 28:49; Da 9:26,27; Ho 8:1; Mt 24:28

To.