1The fountain of purification for Jerusalem. 2The eradication of idolatry and false prophecy. 7The death of Christ, and the saving of a third part after a severe trial.
1IN that aday there shall be a bfountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for 1uncleanness.
1Heb. separation for uncleanness.
a Is. 4.1. ch. 12.3,4,6,8,9,11. b He. 9.14. Jn. 1.29; 4.10,14; 15.3; 13.8; 19.34. Ep. 5.25-27. 1Jn. 1.7. Re. 1.5,6; 7.13,14. Tit. 2.5-7. Is. 1.18. Eze. 36.25,29; 47.
2¶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.
c Ho. 2.16,17; 14.8. Mi. 5.12-14. Ex. 23.13. Ps. 16.4. Is. 2.18,20. d Lu. 11.20. Mi. 3.11. Zep. 3.4. 2Pe. 2.1,2. 1Jn. 4.1-3. Re. 16.13. 1Ki. 22.22.
3And 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.
e 1Ki. 22.6,13. Je. 23.25-27,32. Eze. 13. 1Ti. 5.1-3. Re. 16.13; 19.20. f De. 13.6-10; 18.20. Ex. 32.27,28. Re. 19.20.
4And 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:
2Heb. a garment of hair, 2Ki. 1.8. Mat. 7.15.
3Heb. to lie.
g Mi. 3.6,7. Je. 28.9,16.
5But he shall say, hI am no prophet, I am an *husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
*husbandman-farmer.
h Jos. 7.19. 2Th. 3.10. Am. 7.14.
6And 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.
i 1Ki. 18.28. Re. 13.16. j Pr. 27.5. Ps. 141.5.
7¶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.
k Is. 53.10. Ps. 89.38. Ac. 2.23; 4.28. Ps. 22; 69. Is. 53. Mat. 26; 27. Jn. 18; 19. l ch. 11.4-7. Is. 40.11. Eze. 34.23. He. 13.20. 1Pe. 5.4. m Jn. 10.30; 14.10,11. Phi. 2.6. Le. 6.2. n Mat. 26.31,56. Mar. 14.27. Jn. 16.32. Lu. 21.24. ch. 11.8,9. o Mat. 18.10,11,14. Jn. 18.8. 1Co. 1.26,27. Ja. 2.5. ch. 11.7,11. Lu. 19.10. Ep. 1.7.
8And 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.
p Mat. 3.12; 21.41,44; 22.7; 23.35-38; 24.21. Lu. 19.43,44; 21.20-24. ch. 14.1,2. De. 28.49-68. Mal. 4.1-3. q Ro. 11.5.
9rAnd 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.
r Is. 1.27; 48.10. Eze. 20.35-38. Mal. 3.2,3. Job 23.10. 1Pe. 1.6,7. s Je. 6.27. t ch. 12.10; 10.6. Is. 65.24. Ho. 2.21. Joel 2.32. Ps. 50.15; 91.15. u ch. 10.6. Ho. 1.10; 2.23; 14.4-8. ch. 8.8. Le. 26.12. Je. 30.22; 31.33. Eze. 11.20; 36.28; 37.27. ch. 11.10. Ho. 1.9; 2.23. Ps. 144.15. Jn. 20.28.