Zechariah 4:10-12

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¹⁰People will not be ashamed of the small beginnings, and they will be very happy when they see Zerubbabel with the plumb line,^[a] measuring and checking the finished building. Now the seven sides^[b] of the stone you saw represent the eyes of the Lord looking in every direction. They see everything on earth.”

¹¹Then I said to him, “I saw one olive tree on the right side of the lampstand and one on the left side. What do those two olive trees mean?” ¹²I also said to him, “I saw two olive branches by the gold tubes with gold colored oil flowing from them. What do these things mean?”

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Footnotes

Zechariah 4:10 plumb line A string with a weight on one end used to show how straight the walls of a building were. Sometimes the line was coated with paint or chalk to mark a straight line.
Zechariah 4:10 sides This is a wordplay. The Hebrew word also means “eyes.”