11Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
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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.
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)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; here, in this latter part, he speaks by a sign, or type, which many saw, and which, as it was explained, was an illustrious prediction of the Messiah as the priest and king of his church. Here is, I…
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