Discovery BoxZechariah 4:7 
Context4:7 “What are you, you great mountain? 1 Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple 2 capstone with shoutings of ‘Grace! Grace!’ 3 because of this.”
Zechariah 5:9
Context5:9 Then I looked again and saw two women 4 going forth with the wind in their wings (they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.
Zechariah 9:8
Context9:8 Then I will surround my temple 5 to protect it like a guard 6 from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.
1 sn In context, the great mountain here must be viewed as a metaphor for the enormous task of rebuilding the temple and establishing the messianic kingdom (cf. TEV “Obstacles as great as mountains”).
2 tn The word “temple” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent (cf. NLT “final stone of the Temple”).
3 sn Grace is a fitting response to the idea that it was “not by strength and not by power” but by God’s gracious Spirit that the work could be done (cf. v. 6).
4 sn Here two women appear as the agents of the
5 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
6 tn Though a hapax legomenon, the מִצָּבָה (mitsavah) of the MT (from נָצַב, natsav, “take a stand”) is preferable to the suggestion מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”) or even מִצָּבָא (mitsava’, “from” or “against the army”). The context favors the idea of the
