Zakharia 4:3-6

4:3 There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left.” ¹  4:4 Then I asked the messenger who spoke with me, “What are these, ²  sir?” 4:5 He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded, “No, sir.” 4:6 Therefore he told me, “These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ ³  says the Lord who rules over all.”

[4:3]  ¹ sn The vision apparently describes two olive trees providing olive oil by pipes to a large basin atop the menorah. From this basin two pipes extend to each of the seven lamps of the menorah, for a total of fourteen pipes in all. See vv. 11-12.

[4:4]  ² sn Here these must refer to the lamps, since the identification of the olive trees is left to vv. 11-14.

[4:6]  ³ sn It is premature to understand the Spirit here as the Holy Spirit (the third Person of the Trinity), though the OT prepares the way for that NT revelation (cf. Gen 1:2; Exod 23:3; 31:3; Num 11:17-29; Judg 3:10; 6:34; 2 Kgs 2:9, 15, 16; Ezek 2:2; 3:12; 11:1, 5).