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Zakharia 13:2

Maka pada waktu itu, demikianlah firman TUHAN semesta alam, Aku akan melenyapkan nama-nama berhala dari negeri itu, sehingga orang tidak menyebutnya lagi. Juga para nabi dan roh najis akan Kusingkirkan dari negeri itu.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Demons;   Idolatry;   Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Idolatry;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Cleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - False Prophet;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Idol;   Micaiah;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crimes and Punishments;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Prophecy of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Johanan B. Zakkai;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka pada waktu itu, demikianlah firman TUHAN semesta alam, Aku akan melenyapkan nama-nama berhala dari negeri itu, sehingga orang tidak menyebutnya lagi. Juga para nabi dan roh najis akan Kusingkirkan dari negeri itu.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akan jadi pada hari itu, demikianlah firman Tuhan serwa sekalian alam, bahwa Aku akan menghapuskan dari pada tanah itu nama segala berhala, sehingga tiadalah lagi peringatan akan dia, dan lagi segala nabi dan syaitan yang najis akan Kulalukan dari pada tanah itu.

Contextual Overview

1 In that time shall the house of Dauid and the citezins of Hierusalem haue an open wel to washe of sinne and vncleannesse. 2 And then saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll destroy the names of the idols out of the lande: so that they shal no more be put in remembraunce: As for the false prophetes also, and the vncleane spirites, I wyl take them out of the lande. 3 So that if any of them prophecie any more, his owne father and mother that begat him, shal say vnto him, Thou shalt dye, for thou speakest lyes vnder the name of the Lord: yea his owne father and mother that begat him shall wounde him, when he prophecieth. 4 And then shal those prophetes be confounded euery one of his vision when he prophecieth: neither shal they weare heere cloth any more to deceaue men withall. 5 But he shalbe fayne to say, I am no prophete, I am an husbandman: for so am I taught by man from my youth vp. 6 And if it be saide vnto him, How came these woundes then in thyne handes? He shal aunswere: Thus was I wounded in the house of myne owne friendes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will cut: Exodus 22:13, Deuteronomy 12:3, Joshua 23:7, Psalms 16:4, Isaiah 2:18, Isaiah 2:20, Ezekiel 30:13, Ezekiel 36:25, Ezekiel 37:23, Hosea 2:17, Hosea 14:8, Micah 5:12-14, Zephaniah 1:3, Zephaniah 1:4, Zephaniah 2:11

cause: 1 Kings 22:22, Jeremiah 8:10-12, Jeremiah 23:14, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 29:23, Ezekiel 13:12-16, Ezekiel 13:23, Ezekiel 14:9, Micah 2:11, Matthew 7:15, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, 2 Peter 2:1-3, 2 Peter 2:15-19, 1 John 4:1, 1 John 4:2, Revelation 19:20

unclean: Matthew 12:43, Luke 11:20, Revelation 16:13, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 18:2, Revelation 20:1-3

Reciprocal: Genesis 26:18 - and he Exodus 23:13 - make no mention Ruth 4:10 - the name 1 Samuel 18:10 - and he prophesied 1 Kings 18:40 - slew them there 2 Kings 11:18 - brake they 2 Kings 23:20 - he slew 2 Chronicles 23:17 - brake his altars Isaiah 17:8 - he shall Isaiah 27:9 - the groves Isaiah 30:22 - defile Jeremiah 10:11 - they Jeremiah 10:15 - in the Jeremiah 23:32 - to err Jeremiah 28:1 - the prophet Ezekiel 6:6 - your altars Ezekiel 12:24 - General Ezekiel 16:41 - and I Ezekiel 23:27 - will I Ezekiel 24:11 - that the filthiness Ezekiel 43:7 - no more Hosea 3:4 - without teraphim Hosea 4:5 - and the prophet Hosea 10:2 - break down Hosea 14:3 - neither Micah 3:6 - night Luke 12:53 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
And so Abram gat hym vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and al that he had, and Lot with hym, toward the South.
Genesis 13:3
And he went foorth on his iourney, from the south towarde Bethel, vnto the place where his tent had ben at the begynnyng, betwene Bethel and Hai:
Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole lande before thee? Seperate thy selfe I pray thee from me: yf thou wilt take the left hande, I wyll go to the ryght: or yf thou depart to the ryght hande, I wyll go to the left.
Genesis 13:10
And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.
Genesis 13:12
Abram dwelled in the lande of Chanaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the playne, and pitched his tent vntill Sodome.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.
Genesis 24:35
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But remember the Lorde thy God, for it is he whiche geueth thee power to get substaunce, for to make good the promise whiche he sware vnto thy fathers, as appeareth this day.
1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord maketh poore, and maketh ryche, bringeth lowe, and heaueth vp on hye.
Job 1:3
His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east [countrey.]

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,.... In the latter day, at the time of the conversion of the Jews, when they shall turn to the Lord, and their sins shall be forgiven, and washed away in the fountain of his blood; for this refers not to the times of the Babylonish captivity, and their deliverance from that, which was now over, when idolatry ceased among that people; nor to the times of Christ, when soon after the false prophets among the Heathens, and their lying oracles, ceased, and Paganism in the Roman empire was destroyed; but to the times before mentioned, of which it is predicted by the Lord, saying,

[that] I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; meaning the idols of gold, silver, brass, and wood; images of the Virgin Mary, and saints departed, worshipped by the Papists, Revelation 9:20 for at this time mystical Babylon will fall, the idolatry of the church of Rome will be at an end, and will never be revived more:

and also I will cause the prophets, and the unclean spirit, to pass out of the land; by "the prophets" are meant false prophets, as the Targum explains it, even all the Popish hierarchy, pope, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, c. all that wretched body, which goes by the name of the false prophet, who at the battle of Armageddon will be taken, and with the beast cast alive into the lake of fire, Revelation 19:20 and by "the unclean spirit", or "spirits", the singular for the plural, are meant the three unclean spirits like frogs, and which are the spirits of devils, that come out of the mouth of the dragon beast, and false prophet, the Jesuits, monks, and friars these shall be no more then on the earth, after these times, Revelation 16:13. Jarchi and Kimchi interpret "the unclean spirit" of the corruption of nature; but that will not cease as long as men are in a mortal state. This prophecy is, by the ancient Jews, p applied to the times of the Messiah.

p Zohar in Gen, fol. 53. 4. & 73. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will cut off the names of the idols - This had been a fence against idolatry. To name evil is a temptation to evil. Wrong words are the parents of wrong acts. To speak of evil awakens curiosity or passion; curiosity is one of the strongest incentives to act. All public mention of terrible crimes (it has been observed) produces imitation of the specific form of crime. Hence, it was commanded, “make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth” Exodus 23:13. And Joshua names it in his dying charge to Israel, “Be ye therefore very strong to keep and to are all that is written in the book of the law of Moses - either make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them” Joshua 23:6-7. Hence, they “changed” the “names” of cities , which bare idol names. David speaks of it, as part of fealty to God. “I will, not take their names upon my lips” Psalms 16:4.

Hosea prophesies of the times of the new covenant; “I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall be no more remembered by their name” Hosea 2:17. Isaiah, “The idols he shall utterly abolish” Isaiah 2:18. Zechariah foretells their abolition with a turn of words, formed apparently on those of Hosea ; but slightly varied, because the worship of Baal, such a plague-spot in the time of Hosea, one, which continued until the year before the captivity , was gone, He implies nothing as to his own times, whether idolatry still existed. He predicts its entire abolition in the whole compass of the enlarged Judah, that is, of Christendom.

And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land - False prophecy sets itself to meet a craving of human nature to know something of its future. False prophets there were, even in the time of Nehemiah , and those in some number, hired to prophesy against the word of God. Our Lord warns against them. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” Matthew 7:15. “Many false prophets shall arise and shall deceive many” Matthew 24:11. Many false prophets, John says, “are gone out into the world” John 4:1. False prophets attended the decline of Judaism. Such was the author of the Jewish Sibylline book, prophesying the destruction of the Romans , and fixing the mind of his people on temporal aggrandizement : false prophets were suborned by the Jewish “tyrants” and encouraged the Jews in the resistance which ruined the devoted city: , false prophets have arisen in Christianity; but, like the Phrygian women who led Tertullian astray, they “went out,” were cast out “from it, as not being of it.”

Cyril: “After that the Only Begotten Word of God appeared to us, the dull and childish toys of idolatry perished and were utterly destroyed, and with it were taken away the strange and impious devices of the false prophets, who were full of the evil, unclean spirit, and could be readily detected as laboring under a kindred disease to the idolaters. For both had one president of impiety, Satan.” Not 50 years after the Crucifixion, a pagan wrote his work, “on the failure of oracles.” The outpouring of the Holy “Spirit of grace and supplication” Zechariah 12:10, should sweep away “the unclean spirit” , (Zechariah alone anticipates the language of the New Testament) which became “a lying spirit in the mouth of the prophets” 1 Kings 22:21-23 sought to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 13:2. I will cut off the names of the idols — There shall not only be no idolatry, but the very names of the idols shall be forgotten, or be held in such abhorrence that no person shall mention them. This prophecy seems to be ancient, and to have been delivered while idolatry had prevalence in Israel and Judah.

I will cause the prophets — All false teachers.

And the unclean spirit — That which leads to impurity, the spirit of divination; the lust of the flesh, and of the eye, and the pride of life. Satan shall have neither a being in, nor power over, the hearts of sincere believers in Christ.


 
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