Zechariah 3 :: New International Version (NIV)

Clean Garments for the High Priest

Zec 3:1Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan[fn] standing at his right side to accuse him.

Zec 3:2

Zec 3:2The 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?”

Zec 3:3

Zec 3:3Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.

Zec 3:4

Zec 3:4The 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.”

Zec 3:5

Zec 3:5Then 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.

Zec 3:6

Zec 3:6The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:

Zec 3:7

Zec 3:7“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.

Zec 3:8

Zec 3:8“ ‘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.

Zec 3:9

Zec 3:9See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes[fn] 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.

Zec 3:10

Zec 3:10“ ‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,’ declares the LORD Almighty.”

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(3:1)

Hebrew satan means adversary.

(3:9)

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Zechariah 3 :: New International Version (NIV)

Clean Garments for the High Priest

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