Zechariah 1:9
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“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
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So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him
In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:
Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”