And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
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Gill's Exposition
Even he shall build the temple of the Lord,.... Which is repeated, as Kimchi observes, for confirmation sake:
and he shall bear the glory; that is, of building the temple; and the phrase denotes…
Barnes' Notes
The prophet is taught to explain his own symbolic act. “Behold the Man whose name is the Branch” . “Not for himself, but for Christ, whose name Joshua bare, and whose Priesthood and Princedom he…
Adam Clarke
Behold the man whose name is The Branch! - I cannot think that Zerubbabel is here intended; indeed, he is not so much as mentioned in Zac 3:8. Joshua and his companions are called אנשי מופת anshey…
God did not only at sundry times, but in divers manners, speak in time past by the prophets to his church. In the former part of this chapter he spoke by a vision, which only the prophet himself saw;…
Cambridge Bible
the Branch] See chap. Zec 3:8 and note.
out of his place Lit. from under him. Comp. for the expression Exo 10:23; and for the meaning Isa 11:1; Isa 53:2. Other less satisfactory renderings are, it…
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