Zechariah

Zechariah 13 ©

1 The fountain of purification for Jerusalem. 2 The eradication of idolatry and false prophecy. 7 The death of Christ, and the saving of a third part after a severe trial.

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IN that aday there shall be a bfountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for 1uncleanness.

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¶And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will ccut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the dprophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

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And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet eprophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: fand his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets gshall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear 2a rough garment 3to deceive:

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But he shall say, hI am no prophet, I am an *husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

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And one shall say unto him, What are ithese wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was jwounded in the house of my friends.

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kAwake, O sword, against lmy shepherd, and against the man that is mmy fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: nsmite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon othe little ones.

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And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, ptwo parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the qthird shall be left therein.

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rAnd I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will stry them as gold is tried: tthey shall call on my name, and I will hear them: uI will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.