Zechariah 3:1 BSB — MannaFest

Zechariah 3:1

Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

KJV

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Zechariah (420)

(Chapter III - Verse 1 and following) And he showed me Jesus, the great high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan was standing at his right hand to oppose him. And the Lord said to Satan: May the Lord rebuke you, Satan, may the Lord rebuke you who has chosen Jerusalem. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire? And Jesus was clothed in filthy garments, and he stood before the face of the angel who responded and said to those who stood before him, saying: Take away the filthy garments from him.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And He - God, (for the office of the attendant angel was to explain, not to show the visions) “showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the Angel of the Lord;” probably to be judged by him ; as in the New Testament, “to stand before the Son of Man;” for although “standing before,” whether in relation to man or God, , expresses attendance upon, yet here it appears only as a condition, contemporaneous with that of Satan’s, to accuse him.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 611: “Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1865)

THE original intention of this vision was to foretell the revival of the Jewish state after its long depression through the Babylonian captivity. Joshua, the high priest, with his tattered garments, must be looked upon as the type of the Jewish people in their deep distress. He was ministering before the Lord in worn and filthy garments, to show at once the sin of Israel and the poverty into which they had fallen.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The full accomplishment of Israel's justification and of Satan the accuser's being "rebuked" finally, is yet future (Re 12:10). Compare Re 11:8, wherein "Jerusalem," as here, is shown to be meant primarily, though including the whole Church in general (compare Job 1:9). Satan--the Hebrew term meaning "adversary" in a law court: as devil is the Greek term, meaning accuser.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּרְאֵ֗נִי	vai.yar.'E.ni	and he showed me	H7200 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
הַכֹּהֵ֣ן	ha.ko.Hen	the priest	H3548 →
הַגָּד֔וֹל	ha.ga.Dol	<the> great	H1419 →
עֹמֵ֕ד	'o.Med	standing	H5975 →
לִפְנֵ֖י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
מַלְאַ֣ךְ	mal.'Akh	[the] angel of	H4397 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְהַשָּׂטָ֛ן	ve.ha.sa.Tan	and the accuser	H7854 →
עֹמֵ֥ד	'o.Med	[was] standing	H5975 →
עַל־	'al-	at	H5921 →
יְמִינ֖וֹ	ye.mi.No	right [hand] his	H3225 →
לְשִׂטְנֽוֹ׃	le.sit.No	to accuse him	H7853 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:11
  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- James 4:7
  Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Ephesians 4:27
  and do not give the devil a foothold.
- Job 2:2
  “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- 1 Peter 1:13
  Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Through
Luke 22:31
Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
leads to
- 1 Peter 5:8
  Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
- Job 1:6–12
  One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
- Job 2:1–6
  On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.