Zechariah 3

Fourth Vision: High Priest and Branch

1Then he showed me the high priest Joshua # 3:1 Hg 1:1,12,14; 2:4; Zch 6:11 standing before the angel of the Lord, # 3:1 Gn 16:7–13; 21:17; 22:11–16; 31:11–13 with Satan # 3:1 Or the accuser,# 3:1 1Ch 21:1; Jb 1:6–12; Rv 12:10 standing at his right side to accuse him. 2The Lord # 3:2 Syr reads The Angel of the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! May the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this man a burning stick snatched from the fire? ” # 3:2 Dt 4:20; Am 4:11

3Now Joshua was dressed with filthy # 3:3 Probably stained with human excrement clothes # 3:3 Dt 23:13; Is 4:4 as he stood before the angel. # 3:3 Lv 22:3 4So the angel of the Lord # 3:4 Lit he spoke to those # 3:4 = the angels standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes! ” Then he said to him, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, # 3:4 2Sm 24:10; Jb 7:21; Mc 7:18 and I will clothe you with festive robes.”

5Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban # 3:5 Ex 28:36–38 on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him in garments while the angel of the Lord was standing nearby.

6Then the angel of the Lord charged Joshua, 7“This is what the Lord of Armies says: If you walk in my ways and keep my mandates, you will both rule my house and take care of my courts; I will also grant you access among these who are standing here.

8“Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your colleagues sitting before you; indeed, these men are a sign that I am about to bring my servant, the Branch. # 3:8 Is 4:2; 11:1; Jr 23:5; 33:15; Ezk 17:22–24; Zch 6:12 9Notice the stone # 3:9 Ps 118:22–23; Is 8:14; 28:16; Dn 2:35,45; Zch 4:10; Rv 5:6 I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. # 3:9 Zch 4:10 I will engrave an inscription on it” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies — “and I will take away the iniquity of this land in a single day. 10On that day, each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree.” # 3:10 1Kg 4:25; 2Kg 18:31; Mc 4:1–8 This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

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Zecharyah 3

1And he#3:1 the malach showed me Yehoshua the Kohen HaGadol standing before the Malach Hashem, and HaSatan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2And Hashem said unto HaSatan, Hashem rebuke thee, O HaSatan; even Hashem that hath chosen Yerushalayim rebuke thee. Is not this a brand, a burning stick, snatched out of the eish? 3Now Yehoshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the malach. 4And he#3:4 the malach answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, See, I have taken away thine avon (iniquity, guilt) from thee, and I will clothe thee with machalatzot (extra fine, white clothing). 5And I said, Let them set a tzanif tahor (clean turban),#3:5 mitznefet, Ex 28:4 upon his head. So they set a tzanif tahor upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the Malach Hashem stood by. 6And the Malach Hashem testified unto Yehoshua, saying:

7Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os:

If thou shalt walk in My ways,

and if thou shalt keep My charge,

then thou shalt also judge My Beis,#3:7 Hamikdash

and shalt also keep My courts,

and I will give thee ways

to walk among these standing here.

8Hear now, O Yehoshua the Kohen HaGadol,

thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee,

for they are Anshei Mofet (men of portent);

for, hinei, I will bring forth Avdi Tzemach (My Servant, the Branch).#3:8 i.e., Moshiach Ben Dovid Yehoshua, see Jer 23:5; 30:9; 33:15; Ezra 3:8; Zech 6:11-12; Mt 2:23; Isa 4:2; 9:2-7; 11:1-12; 53:2,11; Moshiach the new “Joshua” Isa 49:8

9For hinei the even (stone) that I have set before Yehoshua;

upon one even (stone) shall be shivah einayim (seven eyes);

hineni, I will engrave the inscription thereof,

saith Hashem Tzva'os,

and I will remove the avon (iniquity, guilt) of that land

in Yom Echad.

10In Yom HaHu,

saith Hashem Tzva'os,

shall ye invite every man his neighbor

under the vine and under the fig tree.

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