¹² And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these ^(A)two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil^[a] is poured out?”

⁴ These are ^(A)the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

²³ He said to them, ^(A)“You will drink ^(B)my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, ^(C)but it is for those for whom it has been ^(D)prepared by my Father.”

The Command to Rebuild the Temple

1 ^(A)In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to ^(B)Zerubbabel the son of ^(C)Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to ^(D)Joshua the son of ^(E)Jehozadak, the high priest: