Zechariah 2:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Then said I, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

Common English Bible

² I said, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem to see how wide and long it will be.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, so that I may see how great its width and how great its length may be."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.

Zechariah 2:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 31:39

And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.

Ezekiel 40:3

When he brought me there, a man was there whose appearance shone like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand, and he was standing in the gateway.

Ezekiel 45:6

“Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign as a holding for the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

Zechariah 1:16

Therefore, thus says the Lord: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.

Zechariah 5:10

Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

John 16:5

But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

Revelation 11:1

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Come and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,