Teks -- Zechariah 5:11 (NET)

5:11 He replied, “To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Zec 5:11 - To build

Not in mercy, but in judgment.

Wesley: Zec 5:11 - Of Shinar

Of Babylon whither many of the Jews fled, and others of them were forced by the Romans.

Wesley: Zec 5:11 - Set there

There they shall be confined without hope of release.

Wesley: Zec 5:11 - Her own base

They are settled upon the lees of their own unbelief: their wickedness is established on its own bases.

JFB: Zec 5:11 - To build . . . house in . . . Shinar

Babylonia (Gen 10:10), the capital of the God-opposed world kingdoms, and so representing in general the seat of irreligion. As the "building of houses" in Babylon (Jer 29:5, Jer 29:28) by the Jews themselves expressed their long exile there, so the building of an house for "wickedness" there implies its permanent stay.

JFB: Zec 5:11 - set . . . upon her own base

Fixed there as in its proper place. "Wickedness" being cast out of Judah, shall for ever dwell with the antichristian apostates (of whom Babylon is the type), who shall reap the fruit of it, which they deserve.

Clarke: Zec 5:11 - To build it a house in the land of Shinar

To build it a house in the land of Shinar - The land of Shinar means Babylon; and Babylon means Rome, in the Apocalypse. The building the house for the woman imprisoned in the ephah may signify, that there should be a long captivity under the Romans, as there was under that of Shinar or Babylon, by which Rome may here be represented. That house remains to the present day: the Jewish woman is still in the ephah; it is set on its own base - continues still as a distinct nation; and the talent of lead - God’ s displeasure - is still on the top. O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel!

Defender: Zec 5:11 - land of Shinar

"Shinar" is Babel, where Nimrod first built his great anti-God empire based upon pantheistic evolutionism and idolatrous covetousness, thence to become the earth's "mother of harlots" (Rev 17:5). In the last days, this Babylonian system of anti-God commercialism, perhaps apostate religion and a political union of the Gentile nations, will swiftly, on wind-borne wings, be carried back to its ancient home in Babylon. Babylon will then quickly be reestablished as the world's center of government, culture and commerce, the capital of the Beast (see Revelation 17, notes, Rev 18:1, notes). Babylon, even now, is being rebuilt by the Iraqi government."

TSK: Zec 5:11 - unto // the land

unto : Deu 28:59; Jer 29:28; Hos 3:4; Luk 21:24

the land : Gen 10:10, Gen 11:2, Gen 14:1; Isa 11:11; Dan 1:2

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Zec 5:11 - To build it a house // In the land of Shinar // It shall be established, and set there // Upon her own base

The angel gives him an answer fuller than his question, and first tells the prophet what was to be done with it.

To build it a house not in mercy, but in judgment, as intending the next deportation should not be, as the first, for seventy years, but for ever. they should never return.

In the land of Shinar of Babylon, whither many of the Jews fled, and so by voluntary exile fulfilled this prophecy; Whither other’ s of them were forced by the Romans.

It shall be established, and set there there they shall be confined without hope of release.

Upon her own base not on the foundation of God’ s promise and covenant, but the base of their sins.

Haydock: Zec 5:11 - the land of Sennaar // Sennaar

the land of Sennaar, where Babel or Babylon was built; (Genesis ix.) where note that Babylon, in holy writ, is often taken for the city of the devil, (that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked) as Jerusalem is taken for the city and people of God. (Challoner) ---

Antichrist will begin his reign at Babylon. (Worthington) ---

Yet this is not clear. (Haydock) ---

The Chaldeans are driven from the countries which they had seized, and confined to their own territory, by the Persians and Greeks; or, if we explain it of the Jews, many of them remained at Babylon, and did not return to defile their own country. Only those whose hearts were touched by God returned, 1 Esdras i. 5. (Calmet) ---

Sennaar means "excussion." The Jews have been driven by the Chaldeans and Romans into all parts. (Menochius)

Gill: Zec 5:11 - And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar,.... That is, in the province of Babylon, as the Targum paraphrases it; for Babel, or Babylon, was in the land of Shinar, Gen 10:10 whither the Jews were carried captive, Dan 1:2 Isa 11:11, and the bearing of the "ephah" thither may denote the cause of their captivity, the measure of sins filled up by them: though this some understand of the like injuries, oppressions, and vexations, brought upon the Chaldeans in the land of Shinar, which they before exercised towards and upon the Jews; and others of the rejection of wicked men from among the Jews, by Ezra and Nehemiah, transporting them as it were back to Babylon again: others of the dispersion of the Jews by the Romans, who chiefly settled after that in the eastern parts of the world; though indeed the whole world was a land of Shinar, or "shaking out" ⁿ unto them; they being shook out of their own land, and scattered about everywhere; which dispersion has been long and lasting, notorious and conspicuous; and they are now settled upon their own base, established upon their former principles of legality and self-righteousness, and rejection of the true Messiah; or rather this may be understood of the transfer of the ephah, or whole measure of iniquity, into mystical Babylon. The antichristian church of Rome is called Babylon; she is represented as a sink of sin, a mystery of iniquity, Rev 17:5 and a house being built for this man of sin, antichrist, denotes the continuance of him; and being established on its own base, shows the false foundation on which the church of Rome is built, and her carnal security. So Cocceius, by the "two women", understands the two kingdoms or powers of antichrist, the civil and ecclesiastical powers; which support the man of sin, lift him up, and give him the highest place in the church, and fix his seat where idolatry and persecution reign, as formerly did in Babylon, in the land of Shinar. Though the whole may very well be applied to the last and everlasting punishment of sin and sinners, when the whole measure is filled up. The end of sin and sinners is death and everlasting destruction. The ephah, and the woman in it, are carried, not upwards to heaven, nor to the New Jerusalem, but to the land of Shinar, the land of shaking; to hell, where are utter darkness, weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth; where a house is built for them, which denotes their continuance there; and which, being established on its own base, shows their punishment shall forever remain; their worm never dies; their fire is not quenched; the smoke of it ascends for ever and ever; their destruction is an everlasting destruction.