Zechariah 3:7

The Lord of hosts saith these things, If thou shalt go in my ways, and shalt keep my keeping, also and thou shalt deem mine house, and shalt keep my porches; and I shall give to thee goers, of these that now here stand nigh. (The Lord of hosts saith these things, If thou shalt go in my ways, and shalt perform your duties, then thou shalt judge, or thou shalt rule, my House, and shalt keep charge of my courtyards, and I shall give thee the right to come and go amongst those who now stand here nearby.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

In Context

6and the angel of the Lord witnessed to Joshua, and said,

8Hear thou, Joshua, great priest, thou and thy friends that dwell before thee, for they be men signifying thing [s] to coming. Lo! soothly I shall bring my servant springing up, either Christ born. (Hear thou, Joshua, the high priest, thou and thy friends who be seated before thee, for they signify the things to come. Behold! truly I shall bring forth my servant, The Branch.)

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Cross References

Genesis 26:5for Abraham obeyed to my voice, and kept my behests, and my commandments, and my ceremonies, and my laws.

Leviticus 10:3And Moses said to Aaron, This thing it is that the Lord spake (or This is what the Lord meant when he said), I shall be hallowed in them that nigh to me, and I shall be glorified in the sight of all the people; which thing Aaron heard, and was still.

1 Samuel 2:28And I chose him of all the lineages of Israel to be a priest to me, that he should go up to mine altar, and should burn incense to me, and that he should bear before me a priest’s cloth (or cloak); and I gave to the house of thy father all things of the sacrifices of the sons of Israel. (And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, so that he could go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and that he would wear the ephod; and I gave to thy father’s family all of the sacrifices of the Israelites.)

1 Chronicles 23:32and that they keep the observances of the tabernacle of the bond of peace of the Lord, and the custom of the saintuary, and the observance of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, that they minister in the house of the Lord. (and that they keep the observances of the Tabernacle of the Covenant of the Lord, that is, the Tabernacle of the Witnessing, and the customs of the sanctuary, and the observances of the sons of Aaron, their kinsmen, and so serve in the House of the Lord.)

Ezekiel 44:8And ye kept not the commandments of my saintuary, and ye setted keepers of my keepings in my saintuary to yourselves. (And ye kept not charge of the holy things yourselves, but ye have put these foreigners, or these strangers, in charge of my sanctuary.)

Ezekiel 48:11The saintuary shall be to (the) priests of the sons of Zadok, that kept my ceremonies, and erred not, when the sons of Israel erred, as also [the] deacons erred. (This portion of the place of the first fruits shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok who kept, or who continued, my ceremonies, and went not astray, when the Israelites went astray, like also the Levites went astray.)

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 3:2-8

Joshua resisted and Upheld; Joshua Purified from Pollution; Joshua Reinstalled in His Office. ( b. c. 520.) 1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord , and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. 2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. 4 And he answered and spake unto those… Read the whole commentary →

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