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Young's Literal Translation

Zechariah 3:3

And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dress;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Garment of Sin;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeshua;   Justice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Theophany;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jeshua;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoiachin;   Jeshua;   Malachi;   Michael;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baptism;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joshua ;   Mitre;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Archangel;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Arment;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jude;   Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, Offices of;   Joshua (3);   Judge;   Priest, High;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - James, General Epistle of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
Hebrew Names Version
Now Yehoshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
King James Version (1611)
Now Ioshua was clothed with filthie garments, and stood before the Angel.
King James Version
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
English Standard Version
Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.
New American Standard Bible
Now Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the angel.
New Century Version
Joshua was wearing dirty clothes and was standing in front of the angel.
Amplified Bible
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy (nauseatingly vile) garments and was standing before the Angel [of the LORD].
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe Iehoshua was clothed with filthie garments, and stoode before the Angel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.
Berean Standard Bible
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the Angel.
Contemporary English Version
Joshua's clothes were filthy.
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshua was clothed in garments covered with dung; and he was standing before the angel,
Darby Translation
And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the Angel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joshua was wearing a dirty robe as he stood in front of the angel.
George Lamsa Translation
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel of the LORD.
Good News Translation
Joshua was standing there, wearing filthy clothes.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the angel.
Literal Translation
And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and he stood before the Angel.
American Standard Version
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Bible in Basic English
Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Now Iosua was clothed in vncleane rayment, and stoode before the angel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord rebuke thee, O Devil, even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: behold! is not this as a brand plucked from the fire?
English Revised Version
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
World English Bible
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus was clothid with foule clothis, and stood bifor the face of the aungel.
Update Bible Version
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
New English Translation
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood there before the angel.
New King James Version
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel.
New Living Translation
Jeshua's clothing was filthy as he stood there before the angel.
New Life Bible
Now Joshua was dressed in dirty clothes and standing in front of the angel.
New Revised Standard
Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, Joshua, was clothed with filthy garments, - though standing before the messenger.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the face of the angel.
Revised Standard Version
Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now Iesua was clothed in vnclene rayment, and stode before the angel:
THE MESSAGE
Joshua, standing before the angel, was dressed in dirty clothes. The angel spoke to his attendants, "Get him out of those filthy clothes," and then said to Joshua, "Look, I've stripped you of your sin and dressed you up in clean clothes."

Contextual Overview

1 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. 2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?' 3 And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger. 4 And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: `Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.' And he saith unto him, `See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.' 5 He also said, `Let them set a pure diadem on his head. And they set the pure diadem on his head, and clothe him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah is standing, 6 and the messenger of Jehovah doth protest to Joshua, saying: 7 `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: If in My ways thou dost walk, And if My charge thou dost keep, Then also thou dost judge My house, And also thou dost keep My courts, And I have given to thee conductors among these standing by.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 30:18-20, Ezra 9:15, Isaiah 64:6, Daniel 9:18, Matthew 22:11-13, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 7:14, Revelation 19:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:10 - wash Exodus 28:2 - holy garments Ezra 2:2 - Jeshua Isaiah 4:4 - washed away Jeremiah 13:7 - it was Jeremiah 15:1 - stood Ezekiel 22:6 - the princes Luke 15:22 - the best Romans 4:5 - ungodly James 2:2 - in vile Revelation 3:4 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
and the man saith, `The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.'
Genesis 3:13
And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What [is] this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband [is] thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Genesis 3:17
And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
Genesis 20:6
And God saith unto him in the dream, `Yea, I -- I have known that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I withhold thee, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not suffered thee to come against her;
1 Chronicles 16:22
Come not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.
Job 1:11
The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath -- if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
Job 2:5
Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh -- if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
Job 19:21
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
1 Corinthians 7:1
And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments,.... Having fallen into sin. The Jewish writers z interpret this of the sin of his children in marrying strange wives, Ezra 10:18 or he had married one himself, as Jerom from the Jews, on the place; or a whore, as Justin Martyr a suggests; or had been slothful and sluggish in rebuilding the temple; and, be it what it will, Satan had aggravated it, and represented him as a most filthy creature, covered with sin, and as it were clothed with it: sins may well be called filthy garments, since righteousnesses are as filthy rags, Isaiah 64:6. It may also denote the imperfection of the Levitical priesthood, and the pollutions in it, at least in those who officiated therein, and especially under the second temple; as well as may represent the defilements of the Lord's people by sins they fall into:

and stood before the angel: as an accused person, charged with sin, and waiting the issue of the process against him: he stood under an humble sense of his iniquities, looking to the blood and righteousness of Christ for pardon and justification; praying and entreating that these filthy garments might be took away from him, and he be clothed with fine linen, suitable to his character as a priest. Such a sordid dress was the habit of persons arraigned for crimes. It was usual, especially among the Romans, when a man was accused of, and charged with, capital crimes, and during his arraignment, to let down his hair, suffer his beard to grow long, to wear filthy ragged garments, and appear in a very dirty and sordid habit; hence such were called "sordidati" b: nay, it was not only customary for the accused person, when he was brought into court before the people to be tried, to be in such a filthy dress; but even his near relations, friends, and acquaintance, before the court went to voting, used to appear in like manner, with their hair dishevelled, and clothed with garments foul and out of fashion, weeping and crying, and deprecating punishment; thinking, by such a filthy and deformed habit, to move the pity of the people c. It is said of the ambassadors of the Rhodians at Rome, upon a certain victory obtained, that they appeared at first in white garments, suitable to a congratulation; but when they were told that the Rhodians had not so well deserved to be reckoned among the friends and allies of the Romans, they immediately put on sordid garments, and went about to the houses of the principal men, with prayers and tears entreating that cognizance might first be taken of their cause, before they were condemned d: though, on the contrary, some, when arraigned, as defying their accusers, and as a token of their innocence, and to show the fortitude of their minds, and even, if they could, to terrify the court itself, would dress out in the most splendid manner; or, however, would not follow the above custom. It is reported of Scipio Africanus, that when he was arraigned in court, he would not omit shaving his beard, nor put off his white garments, nor appear in the common dress of arraigned persons e: and when Manlius Capitolinus was arraigned in court, none of his relations would change their clothes; and Appius Claudius, when he was tried by the tribunes of the common people, behaved with such spirit, and put on such a bold countenance, as thinking that by his ferocity he might strike terror into the tribunes; and so Herod, when he was accused before Hyrcanus, went into the court clothed in purple, and attended with a guard of armed men f: whether the above custom obtained in Judea, and so early as the times of this prophet, is not so evident; though Josephus ben Gorion says it was a custom for a guilty person to stand before the judges clothed in black, and his head covered with dust g; however, it is certain that with the Jews a distinction was made in the dress of priests, who, by the sanhedrim, were found guilty or not; such as were, were clothed and veiled in "black"; and such as were not, but were found right and perfect, were clothed in white; and went in, and ministered with their brethren the priests h.

z T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 93. 1. a Dialog. cum Trypho, p. 344. b Salmuth. in Paneirol. Memorab. par. 1. tit. 44. p. 187. c Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 5. d Liv. Hist. l. 45. c. 20. e A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 3. c. 4. f Alex. ab Alex. ut supra. (Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 5) g Hist. Heb. c. 44. apud Drusium in Amos ii. 7. h Misn. Middot, c. 5. sect. 3. T. Bab. Yoma fol. 19. 1. Maimon. Biath Hamikdash, c. 6. sect. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments - Such, it is expressed, was his habitual condition; he was one so clothed. The “filthy garment,” as defilement generally, is, in Scripture, the symbol of sin. “We are all as the unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” Isaiah 64:6. “He that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy - when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion” Isaiah 4:3-4. “There is a generation, pure in its own eyes, and it is not washed from its filthiness” Proverbs 30:12. The same is expressed by different words, signifying pollution, defilement by sin; “Woe unto her that is filthy and polluted” Zephaniah 3:1; “The land was defiled with blood” Psalms 106:38; “they were defiled with their own works”. It is symbolized also by the “divers washings” Hebrews 9:10 of the law, representing restored purity; and the use of the word by Psalmists and prophets; “Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity” Psalms 51:4; “wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes” Isaiah 1:16; “O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness” Jeremiah 4:14. In later times at least, the accused were clothed in black , not in defiled garments.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 3:3. Joshua was clothed with filthy garments — The Jewish people were in a most forlorn, destitute, and to all human appearance despicable, condition; and besides all, they were sinful, and the priesthood defiled by idolatry; and nothing but the mercy of God could save them.


 
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