# Zechariah 2

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. [2] “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.” [3] Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him [4] and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it. [5] For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’” [6] “Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD. [7] “Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!” [8] For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye— [9] I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.” [10] “Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD. [11] “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. [12] And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem. [13] Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

## When

- 520-518 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Zechariah 1:1 dates itself by the eighth month of the second year of Darius.

## Who ruled

- **Darius I**, king of Persia, 522-486 BC · Source: Behistun Inscription, written at his order in three languages; Herodotus III

## Places in this chapter

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem
- **Zion** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/zion
- **Babylon 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/babylon-1

## Each verse

- Zechariah 2:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/1
- Zechariah 2:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/2
- Zechariah 2:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/3
- Zechariah 2:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/4
- Zechariah 2:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/5
- Zechariah 2:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/6
- Zechariah 2:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/7
- Zechariah 2:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/8
- Zechariah 2:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/9
- Zechariah 2:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/10
- Zechariah 2:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/11
- Zechariah 2:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/12
- Zechariah 2:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/2/13