Charles Ellicott Commentary Zechariah 5:11

"And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place." — Zechariah 5:11 (ASV)

Land of Shinar. —Where mankind had first organized a rebellion against God (Genesis 12:2); it was also the land of the Captivity of the Jews (Babylonia).

This vision is a circumstantial symbolization of the promise given in Zechariah 3:9: I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day. While it is a promise of the remission of the punishment of their iniquity (for in Hebrew, "iniquity" often means punishment), it serves also as an exhortation to the returned exiles to leave in Babylon the iniquity which had been the cause of their being transported there.