Zechariah 13

1“In that day there will be a fountain opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.Cross-references: Lev 15:2 · Num 19:9 · Job 9:30 · Ps 51:2 · Ps 51:7 · Isa 1:16 · +18 more

2It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.Cross-references: Ex 22:13 · Ex 23:13 · Deut 12:3 · Josh 23:7 · 1Ki 22:22 · Ps 16:4 · +28 more

3It will happen that when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.Cross-references: Ex 32:27 · Deut 13:6 · Deut 18:20 · Deut 33:9 · Jer 23:34 · Ezek 14:9 · +3 more

4It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive,Cross-references: 2Ki 1:8 · Isa 20:2 · Jer 2:26 · Jer 6:15 · Mic 3:6 · Matt 3:4 · +3 more

5but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’Cross-references: Amos 7:14 · Acts 19:17

6One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’Cross-references: 1Ki 18:28 · Ps 22:16 · Prov 27:5 · John 18:35 · John 19:14 · Rev 13:16 · +1 more

7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.Cross-references: Deut 32:41 · Ps 2:2 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 53:4 · +67 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

8It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh, “two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 65:12 · Isa 66:4 · Isa 66:24 · Jer 30:11 · +25 more

9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”Cross-references: Lev 26:12 · Lev 26:44 · Deut 26:17 · Job 23:10 · Ps 34:15 · Ps 50:15 · +32 more