Zechariah 5:1 Cross References

Zechariah 5:1

1: I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

"What do you see?" the angel asked. "I see a flying scroll," I replied. "It appears to be about thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide. "

Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and it held a scroll.
He unrolled it, and I saw that both sides were covered with funeral songs, other words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom.

And I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel, who shouted with a loud voice: "Who is worthy to break the seals on this scroll and unroll it?"
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it.
Then I wept because no one could be found who was worthy to open the scroll and read it.
But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne, has conquered. He is worthy to open the scroll and break its seven seals."

And in his hand was a small scroll, which he had unrolled. He stood with his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

During the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king in Judah, the LORD gave this message to Jeremiah:
"Get a scroll, and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Begin with the first message back in the days of Josiah, and write down every message you have given, right up to the present time.
Perhaps the people of Judah will repent if they see in writing all the terrible things I have planned for them. Then I will be able to forgive their sins and wrongdoings."
So Jeremiah sent for Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote down all the prophecies that the LORD had given him.
Then Jeremiah said to Baruch, "I am a prisoner here and unable to go to the Temple.

Then the voice from heaven called to me again: "Go and take the unrolled scroll from the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
So I approached him and asked him to give me the little scroll. "Yes, take it and eat it," he said. "At first it will taste like honey, but when you swallow it, it will make your stomach sour!"
So I took the little scroll from the hands of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but it made my stomach sour.
Then he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

Then the officials left the scroll for safekeeping in the room of Elishama the secretary and went to tell the king.
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from Elishama's room and read it to the king as all his officials stood by.
It was late autumn, and the king was in a winterized part of the palace, sitting in front of a fire to keep warm.
Whenever Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king took his knife and cut off that section of the scroll. He then threw it into the fire, section by section, until the whole scroll was burned up.
Neither the king nor his officials showed any signs of fear or repentance at what they heard.

Again the LORD said to me, "Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. "

After the king had burned Jeremiah's scroll, the LORD gave Jeremiah another message. He said,
"Get another scroll, and write everything again just as you did on the scroll King Jehoiakim burned.
Then say to the king, `This is what the LORD says: You burned the scroll because it said the king of Babylon would destroy this land and everything in it.
Now this is what the LORD says about King Jehoiakim of Judah: He will have no heirs to sit on the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to lie unburied--exposed to hot days and frosty nights.
I will punish him and his family and his officials because of their sins. I will pour out on them and on all the people of Judah and Jerusalem all the disasters I have promised, for they would not listen to my warnings.'"

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