Zechariah 4:7
Context| NETBible | “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.” |
| XREF | Ezr 3:11-13; Ezr 6:15-17; Job 38:6,7; Ps 114:4,6; Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Isa 40:3,4; Isa 41:15; Isa 64:1-3; Jer 33:11; Jer 51:25; Da 2:34,35; Mic 1:4; Mic 4:1; Na 1:5,6; Hab 3:6; Hag 2:6-9,21-23; Zec 4:9; Zec 14:4,5; Mt 21:21; Mt 21:42; Mr 12:10; Lu 3:5; Lu 20:17; Ac 4:11; Ro 11:6; Eph 1:6,7; Eph 2:4-8; Eph 2:20; 1Pe 2:7; Re 5:9-13; Re 16:20; Re 19:1-6 |
| NET © Notes |
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). |
