Finally, some visions that are a little more obvious. A list if names that is 33x15' long that captures thieves and false witnesses. Depending on the size of God's handwriting, that is room for a lot of names. Alright, so this is pretty straightforward. God makes a list, but doesn't even need to check it twice.
Then, there is a basket of wickedness. Oddly enough, wickedness personified is a woman, who knew? And what do we do with wickedness? Well, we shove it back into the basket and go stick on a table in Babylon. I don't really get the fact that it is a woman. My Lutheran Study Bible tries to say something about the fact that many pagan Gods were women or something. But if the point was really about the removal of wickedness from the holy land, why not make it a snake or a cat? Was Zechariah single?
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God said, "You shall have no other gods." When the walls of Jericho fell, they killed everyone, because God's people were apt to intermarry people who had other gods. A lot of these were fertility gods, represented, unfortunately, by women.
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