Zechariah 4:4-5

4:4 Then I asked the messenger who spoke with me, “What are these, ¹  sir?” 4:5 He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded, “No, sir.”

Zechariah 4:13

4:13 He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” And I said, “No, sir.”

Zechariah 6:4

6:4 Then I asked the angelic messenger ²  who was speaking with me, “What are these, sir?”

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¹ sn Here these must refer to the lamps, since the identification of the olive trees is left to vv. 11-14.

² tn See the note on the expression “angelic messenger” in 1:9.