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Zechariah 3:1
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Then he showed me the high priest Joshua standing before the angel of the Lord, with Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
He showed me Yehoshua the Kohen Gadol standing before the angel of the LORD, and Hasatan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
And he shewed me Ioshua the high Priest, standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
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.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord , and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right to accuse him.
Then he showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing in front of the Lord 's angel. And Satan was standing by Joshua's right side to accuse him.
Then the guiding angel showed me Joshua the high priest [representing disobedient, sinful Israel] standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at Joshua's right hand to be his adversary and to accuse him.
And he shewed mee Iehoshua the hie Priest, standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan stoode at his right hand to resist him.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
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.
I was given another vision. This time Joshua the high priest was standing in front of the Lord 's angel. And there was Satan, standing at Joshua's right side, ready to accuse him.
He showed me Y'hoshua the cohen hagadol standing before the angel of Adonai , with the Accuser standing at his right to accuse him.
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
The angel showed me Joshua the high priest, standing in front of the angel of the Lord and Satan was standing by Joshua's right side. Satan was there to accuse Joshua of doing wrong.
THEN he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to harm him.
In another vision the Lord showed me the High Priest Joshua standing before the angel of the Lord . And there beside Joshua stood Satan, ready to bring an accusation against him.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh; and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him.
And he made me see Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
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.
And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
And he shewed me Iosua the hie priest standing before the angell of the Lord, and Satan stoode at his right hande to resist him.
And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and the Devil stood on his right hand to resist him.
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
And the Lord schewide to me the greet prest Jhesu, stondynge bifore the aungel of the Lord; and Sathan stood on his riythalf, that he schulde be aduersarie to hym.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
Next I saw Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord , with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.
Then the angel showed me Jeshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord . The Accuser, Satan, was there at the angel's right hand, making accusations against Jeshua.
Then he showed me Joshua the head religious leader standing before the angel of the Lord. And Satan was standing at his right side to blame him.
Then he showed me the high priest Joshua standing before the angel of the Lord , and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
And he shewed me, Joshua the high priest, standing before the messenger of Yahweh, - and, the Accuser, standing at his right hand, to accuse him.
And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him.
And he shewed me Iesua ye hye prest, stondinge before the angel of the LORDE, and Satan stode at his right honde to resiste him.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he: Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:13, Zechariah 1:19, Zechariah 2:3
Joshua: Zechariah 3:8, Zechariah 6:11, Ezra 5:2, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:12, Haggai 2:4
standing: Deuteronomy 10:8, Deuteronomy 18:15, 1 Samuel 6:20, 2 Chronicles 29:11, Psalms 106:23, Jeremiah 15:19, Ezekiel 44:11, Ezekiel 44:15, Luke 21:36
the angel: Genesis 48:16, Exodus 3:2-6, Exodus 23:20, Exodus 23:21, Hosea 12:4, Hosea 12:5, Malachi 3:1, Acts 7:30-38
Satan: that is, an adversary, Job 1:6-12, Job 2:1-8, Psalms 109:6, *marg. Luke 22:31, 1 Peter 5:8, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:10
resist him: Heb. be his adversary, Genesis 3:15
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 5:5 - General Judges 2:1 - And an angel 1 Chronicles 21:1 - Satan Ezra 2:2 - Jeshua Ezra 3:2 - Jeshua Ezra 10:18 - Jeshua Nehemiah 7:7 - Jeshua Nehemiah 12:1 - Jeshua Nehemiah 12:7 - of Jeshua Psalms 51:13 - Then Isaiah 6:5 - a man Isaiah 50:8 - mine adversary Isaiah 54:17 - every Jeremiah 18:20 - Remember Jeremiah 24:1 - Lord Daniel 10:13 - the prince Zechariah 3:4 - those Zechariah 3:6 - the Zechariah 4:14 - that Zechariah 12:8 - as the Malachi 1:9 - beseech Matthew 4:10 - Satan Matthew 16:23 - Satan Mark 4:15 - Satan Mark 11:25 - stand Romans 7:21 - evil Romans 8:33 - Who 2 Corinthians 2:11 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:18 - Satan Hebrews 9:24 - appear
Cross-References
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, mighty sword. He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. He'll kill that old dragon that lives in the sea.
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
Pseudo-Servants of God Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment. The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ. It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot "apostles," why can't you put up with simple me? I'm as good as they are. It's true that I don't have their voice, haven't mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I'm talking about. We haven't kept anything back. We let you in on everything. I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's Message to you without asking for something in return, serving you free of charge so that you wouldn't be inconvenienced by me? It turns out that the other churches paid my way so that you could have a free ride. Not once during the time I lived among you did anyone have to lift a finger to help me out. My needs were always supplied by the believers from Macedonia province. I was careful never to be a burden to you, and I never will be, you can count on it. With Christ as my witness, it's a point of honor with me, and I'm not going to keep it quiet just to protect you from what the neighbors will think. It's not that I don't love you; God knows I do. I'm just trying to keep things open and honest between us. And I'm not changing my position on this. I'd die before taking your money. I'm giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing "preachers," vaunting themselves as something special. They're a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ's agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they're not getting by with anything. They'll pay for it in the end. Let me come back to where I started—and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little. I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ. Oh, no, it's a bad habit I picked up from the three-ring preachers that are so popular these days. Since you sit there in the judgment seat observing all these shenanigans, you can afford to humor an occasional fool who happens along. You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down—even slap your face! I shouldn't admit it to you, but our stomachs aren't strong enough to tolerate that kind of stuff. Since you admire the egomaniacs of the pulpit so much (remember, this is your old friend, the fool, talking), let me try my hand at it. Do they brag of being Hebrews, Israelites, the pure race of Abraham? I'm their match. Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.) I've worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death's door time after time. I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather. And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut. If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying. Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.
The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he showed me Joshua the high priest,.... Who was one that came up out of the captivity, and was principally concerned in building the temple, and had many enemies to obstruct him in it; and who falling into sin, or his sons, in marrying strange wives,
Ezra 10:18, which he might connive at, Satan was ready to catch it up, and accuse him before God; though rather Joshua is to be considered, not personally, but typically, representing the state and condition of the priesthood, in which office he was; and which was very low, mean, and abject, under the second temple; or the church of God, which the priests, especially the high priest, were representatives of: and indeed this vision may be accommodated to the case of any single believer, fallen into sin, and accused by Satan, and whose advocate Christ is:
standing before the Angel of the Lord; not any created angel, but Christ the Angel of God's presence, who is called Jehovah, Zechariah 3:2 is the rebuker of Satan, and the advocate of his people; and who takes away their sins, and clothes them with his righteousness: and "standing before" him does not mean barely being in his sight and presence, but as ministering to him; this being the posture both of angels and men, the servants of the Lord, Daniel 7:10, either he was offering sacrifice for the people, or asking counsel of God for them; or rather giving thanks for his and their deliverance from captivity, being as brands taken out of the fire; and praying to be stripped of his filthy garments, and to be clothed with others more decent, and becoming his office; and for help and assistance in the building of the temple, and against those that obstructed him: also he was brought and placed here as a guilty person, charged with sin, and to be tried before him,
Satan standing at his right hand to resist him; either to hinder him in his work of building the temple, by stirring up Sanballat, and other enemies; or rather to accuse him of sin, and bring a charge against him, and get sentence passed upon him; so the accuser used to stand at the right hand of the accused. The Targum paraphrases it,
"and sin standing at his right hand to resist him:''
when the people of God fall into sin, Satan the accuser of the brethren, their avowed enemy, observes it, and accuses them before the Lord, and seeks their condemnation. Maimonides p understands this of his standing at the right hand of the angel; but it was not usual for the prosecutor, accuser, or pleader, whether for or against a person arraigned, to stand the right hand of the judge: indeed, in the Jewish sanhedrim, or grand court of judicature, there were two scribes stood before the judges; the one on the right hand, the other on the left; who took down in writing the pleadings in court, and the sentences of those that were acquitted, and of those that were condemned; he on the right hand the former, and the other on the left hand the latter q. The prince or chief judge of the court sat in the middle; and his deputy, called "Ab Beth Din", or father of the court, sat at his right hand; and a wise man, a principal one, at his left r; but it was usual for the pleader, who was called בעל ריב, "Baal Rib", to stand on the right hand of the party cited into the court, whether he pleaded for or against him s: and to this custom is the allusion here, and in
Psalms 106:6 where Satan, who is the accuser of men, and pleads against them, is placed at the right hand, as here; and God, who pleads the cause of his poor people, is also represented as standing on their right hand. The business of Satan here was to accuse, to bring charges, to plead for condemnation, and endeavour to get the sentence of it passed against Joshua; for he was at his right hand, to be an "adversary" to him, as his name (Satan) signifies, which he has from
the word here used; being an enemy to mankind in general, and especially to the people of God, and more especially to persons in sacred public offices; to whom he is αντιδικος, "a court adversary", as the Apostle Peter calls him, 1 Peter 5:8 who appears in open court against them, and charges them in a most spiteful and malicious manner; and is a most, implacable, obstinate, and impudent one, as his name signifies, and the word from whence it is derived t; though Maimonides u thinks the name is derived from שטה, which signifies to decline, or go back from anything; since he, without doubt, makes men to decline from the way of truth to the way of falsehood and error.
p Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 22. p. 398. q Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 4. sect. 3. Maimon. Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 1. sect. 9. Mosis Kotsensis Mitzvot Torah, Pr. Affirm. 97. r Maimon. ib. sect. 3. Vid. Cocceium in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 4. sect. 3. s Godwin's Moses and Aaron, l. 5. c. 3. t Vid. Schultens in Job i. 6. u Moreh Nevochim, ut supra. (par. 3. c. 22. p. 398.)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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. Although, moreover, the Angel speaks with authority, yet God’s Presence in him is not spoken of so distinctly, that the high priest would be exhibited as standing before him, as in his office before God.
And Satan - Etymologically, the enemy, as, in the New Testament, “your adversary the devil” 1 Peter 5:8, etymologically, the accuser. It is a proper name of the Evil one, yet its original meaning, “the enemy, was not lost. Here, as in Job, his malice is shown in accusation; “the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God, day and night” Revelation 12:10. In Job Job 1:8-11; Job 2:3-5, the accusations were calumnious; here, doubtless, true. For he accused Job of what would have been plain apostacy Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Joshua and Zerubbabel had shared, or given way to, the remissness of the people, as to the rebuilding of the temple and the full restoration of the worship of God Ezra 3:1-13; Ezra 4:0. For this, Haggai had reproved the people, through them Haggai 1:1-11. Satan had then a real charge, on which to implead them. Since also the whole series of visions relates to the restoration from the captivity, the guilt, for which Satan impleads him with Jerusalem and Jerusalem in him, includes the whole guilt, which had rested upon them, so that for a time God had seemed to have cast “away His people” Romans 11:1. Satan “stands at his right hand,” the place of a protector Psalms 16:8; Psalms 109:31; Psalms 121:5; Psalms 142:4, to show that he had none to save him, and that himself was victorious.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
While the Jews were rebuilding their temple, their adversaries
endeavoured to stop the work, Ezra 5:3-4, c.
This vision is therefore calculated to give them the strongest
encouragement that God, after plucking them as brands out of
the fire (or captivity of Babylon,) would not now give them up,
but would continue to prosper and favour them and that
notwithstanding the interruptions they should meet with, the
work should be finished under the gracious superintendence of
Providence; and their high priest, clothed in his pontifical
robes, would soon officiate in the holy of holies, 1-7.
The subject is then, by an easy transition, applied to a much
greater future deliverance and restoration, of which Joshua and
his companions, delivered now, are declared to be figures or
types; for that the Messiah or Branch, the great high priest
typified by Joshua, would be manifested; and, like the
principal stone represented in the vision, become the chief
corner stone of his Church; that the all-seeing eye of God
would constantly guard it; and that by his atonement he would
procure for it peace and pardon, 8-10.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Zechariah 3:1. And he showed me Joshua the high priest — The Angel of the Lord is the Messiah, as we have seen before; Joshua, the high priest, may here represent the whole Jewish people; and Satan, the grand accuser of the brethren. What the subject of dispute was, we perhaps learn from Jude 1:9. Michael and Satan disputed about the body of Moses. This could not refer to the natural body of the Jewish lawgiver, which had been dead about one thousand years; it must therefore refer to that body of laws given to the Jews by Moses, for the breach of which Satan, who was their tempter to disobedience, now comes forward as their accuser; that, exciting the justice of God against them, they may be all brought to perdition. There is a paronomasia here:-
Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. — שטן Satan signifies an adversary. לשטנו lesiteno, to be his adversary, or accuser.
