Zechariah 13:1

“In that day there will be a fountain opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

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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

2It will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:2“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

Job 9:30If I 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 12:3Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation [yeshu`ah].

Ezekiel 36:17“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Ezekiel 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and will multiply it, and lay no famine on 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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