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Zechariah 13:9 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 13 · verse 9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.Zechariah 13:9 · King James Version
Zechariah 13:9 in context
7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
8And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 50:15
- Jeremiah 29:11-12
- Acts 2:21
- Isaiah 65:23-24
- Isaiah 48:10
- 1 Peter 1:6-7
- Psalms 34:15-19
- Psalms 91:15
Key words (Strong's)
- refinetsâraphto fuseH6884 →
- silverkeçephsilverH3701 →
- bringbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- partshᵉlîyshîythirdH7992 →
- fireʼêshfireH784 →
- goldzâhâbgold, figuratively, something gold-colored , as oil, a clear skyH2091 →
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Here is a prophecy, I. Of the sufferings of Christ, of him who was to be pierced, and was to be the fountain opened. Awake, O sword! against my Shepherd, Zac 13:7.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-9