Discovery BoxZechariah 2:1 
Context2:1 (2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 4:4-5
Context4:4 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
Context4:13 He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” And I said, “No, sir.”
Zechariah 5:1
Context5:1 Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!
Zechariah 5:10
Context5:10 I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”
Zechariah 6:4
Context6:4 Then I asked the angelic messenger 2 who was speaking with me, “What are these, sir?”
Zechariah 9:6
Context9:6 A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.
Zechariah 10:6
Context10:6 “I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom 3 of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph 4 and will bring them back 5 because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and therefore I will hear them.
Zechariah 13:9
Context13:9 Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire;
I will refine them like silver is refined
and will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name and I will answer;
I will say, ‘These are my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’” 6
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.
3 tn Heb “the house.”
4 tn Or “the kingdom of Israel”; Heb “the house of Joseph.”
sn Joseph is mentioned here instead of the usual Israel (but see 2 Sam 19:20; Ps 78:67; 80:1; 81:5; Ezek 37:16; Amos 5:6, 15; 6:6) because of the exodus motif that follows in vv. 8-11.
5 tc The anomalous MT reading וְחוֹשְׁבוֹתִים (vÿkhoshÿvotim) should probably be וַהֲשִׁי בוֹתִם (vahashi votim), the Hiphil perfect consecutive of שׁוּב (shuv), “return” (cf. Jer 12:15).
6 sn The expression I will say ‘It is my people,’ and they will say ‘the
