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Zechariah 3

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1He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 48:16 · Ex 3:2 · Ex 23:20 · Deut 10:8 · Deut 18:15 · +27 more

2Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”Cross-references: 2Chr 6:6 · Ps 109:31 · Dan 12:1 · Amos 4:11 · Zech 1:17 · Zech 2:12 · +13 more

3Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:18 · Ezra 9:15 · Isa 64:6 · Dan 9:18 · Matt 22:11 · Rev 7:13 · +1 more

4He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”Cross-references: 2Sam 12:13 · 1Ki 22:19 · Ps 32:1 · Ps 51:9 · Isa 6:2 · Isa 6:5 · +23 more

5I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.Cross-references: Ex 28:2 · Ex 29:6 · Lev 8:6 · Job 29:14 · Zech 6:11 · Heb 2:8 · +3 more

6Yahweh’s angel solemnly assured Joshua, saying,Cross-references: Gen 22:15 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 48:15 · Ex 23:20 · Isa 63:9 · Jer 11:7 · +3 more

7“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.Cross-references: Gen 26:5 · Lev 8:35 · Lev 10:3 · Deut 17:8 · 1Sam 2:28 · 1Ki 2:3 · +20 more

8Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign; for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.Cross-references: Ps 71:7 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 8:18 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 20:3 · Isa 42:1 · +17 more

9For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua: on one stone are seven eyes; behold, I will engrave its inscription,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.Cross-references: Ex 28:11 · Ex 28:21 · Ex 28:36 · 2Chr 16:9 · Ps 118:22 · Isa 8:14 · +26 more

10In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”Cross-references: 1Ki 4:25 · Isa 36:16 · Hos 2:18 · Mic 4:4 · Zech 2:11 · John 1:45

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