Zechariah 13:1

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

In Context

2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:2“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Isaiah 12:3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

Ezekiel 36:17“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.

Ezekiel 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 13:1

In this chapter we have, I. Some further promises relating to gospel-times. Here is a promise of the remission of sins ( ver. 1 ), of the reformation of manners ( ver. 2 ), and particularly of the convicting and silencing of false prophets, ver. 2-6 . II. A clear prediction of the sufferings of Christ and the dispersion of his disciples thereupon ( ver. 7 ), of the destruction of the greater part of the Jewish nation not long after ( ver. 8 ), and of the purifying of a remnant of them, a peculiar people to God,… Read the whole commentary →

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