Zechariah 3

Clean Garments for the High Priest

1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan[a] standing at his right side to accuse him.
2 The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”
5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:
7 “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.
8 “ ‘Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
9 See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes[b] on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.
10 “ ‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,’ declares the LORD Almighty.”

Cross References 22

  • 1. S Ezra 2:2; Haggai 1:1; Zechariah 6:11
  • 2. S 2 Samuel 24:1; S 2 Chronicles 18:21; S Psalms 109:6; S Matthew 4:10
  • 3. Jude 1:9
  • 4. S Isaiah 14:1
  • 5. S Isaiah 7:4
  • 6. Amos 4:11; Jude 1:23
  • 7. S 2 Samuel 12:13; S Ezekiel 36:25; S Micah 7:18
  • 8. S Genesis 41:42; S Psalms 132:9; S Isaiah 52:1; Revelation 19:8
  • 9. S Exodus 29:6
  • 10. S Leviticus 8:35
  • 11. Deuteronomy 17:8-11; S Ezekiel 44:15-16
  • 12. 2 Chronicles 23:6
  • 13. Jeremiah 15:19; Zechariah 6:15
  • 14. Haggai 1:1
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 28:46; S Ezekiel 12:11
  • 16. S Isaiah 4:2; S Isaiah 49:3; S Ezekiel 17:22
  • 17. S Ezra 2:2
  • 18. S 2 Chronicles 16:9
  • 19. Isaiah 28:16
  • 20. S 2 Samuel 12:13; S Jeremiah 50:20
  • 21. S Job 11:18
  • 22. S Numbers 16:14; S 1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4

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Zechariah 3 Commentaries

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