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44 Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, “I saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.”

Then Elijah shouted, “Hurry to Ahab and tell him, ‘Climb into your chariot and go back home. If you don’t hurry, the rain will stop you!’”

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44 The seventh time(A) the servant reported, “A cloud(B) as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

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54 Then Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “When you see clouds beginning to form in the west, you say, ‘Here comes a shower.’ And you are right.

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Interpreting the Times

54 He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does.(A)

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And though you started with little,
    you will end with much.

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Your beginnings will seem humble,
    so prosperous(A) will your future be.(B)

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10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.”

(The seven lamps[a] represent the eyes of the Lord that search all around the world.)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:10 Or The seven facets (see 3:9); Hebrew reads These seven.

10 “Who dares despise the day(A) of small things,(B) since the seven eyes(C) of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone[a] in the hand of Zerubbabel?”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 4:10 Or the plumb line

13 Harness your chariot horses and flee,
    you people of Lachish.[a]
You were the first city in Judah
    to follow Israel in her rebellion,
    and you led Jerusalem[b] into sin.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:13a Lachish sounds like the Hebrew term for “team of horses.”
  2. 1:13b Hebrew the daughter of Zion.

13 You who live in Lachish,(A)
    harness fast horses to the chariot.
You are where the sin of Daughter Zion(B) began,
    for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

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10 So these instructions were carried out. Two cows were hitched to the cart, and their newborn calves were shut up in a pen.

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10 So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

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“Now build a new cart, and find two cows that have just given birth to calves. Make sure the cows have never been yoked to a cart. Hitch the cows to the cart, but shut their calves away from them in a pen.

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“Now then, get a new cart(A) ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked.(B) Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.

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