Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 5:11

11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar : and it shall be establi[illegible: 1 letter]hed and set there upon her own base .

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

Of Babylon whither many of the Iews fled, and so by voluntary exile fulfilled this prophesie, whither others of them were forced by the Romans.

There they shall be confined without hope of release,

not on the foundation of God's Promise and Covenant, but the base of their sins.

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

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