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King James Version

Zechariah 6:11

Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Crown;   Gold;   Jehozadak;   Jeshua;   Joshua;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   Melchizedek;   Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jehozadak;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeshua;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Branch;   Joshua the son of jehozadak;   Zerubbabel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Messiah;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeshua;   Melchizedek;   Tobiah, the Children of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   High Priest;   Jehozadak;   Tobiah;   Zadok;   Zechariah, Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Colours;   Jehozadak;   Jeshua;   Priests and Levites;   Zerubbabel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josedech ;   Joshua ;   Zechariah, Prophecy of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shadow;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jesh'ua;   Jos'edech;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chariot;   Crown;   Jehozadak;   Joshua (3);   Messiah;   Priest, High;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Heldai;   Joshua (Jehoshua);   Symbol;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Use the silver and gold to make a crown. Put it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.
New American Standard Bible
"Also take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
New Century Version
Make the silver and gold into a crown, and put it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Update Bible Version
yes, take [of them] silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Webster's Bible Translation
Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest.
Amplified Bible
"Take silver and gold [from them], and make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
English Standard Version
Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
World English Bible
Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt take gold and siluer, and schalt make corouns, and putte on the heed of Jhesu, the greet preest, sone of Josedech;
English Revised Version
yea, take of them silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Berean Standard Bible
Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.
American Standard Version
yea, take of them silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Bible in Basic English
And take silver and gold and make a crown and put it on the head of Zerubbabel;
Complete Jewish Bible
Take silver and gold; make crowns; put one on the head of Y'hoshua the son of Y'hotzadak, the cohen hagadol;
Darby Translation
yea, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
yea, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set the one upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
King James Version (1611)
Then take siluer, and golde, and make crownes, and set them vpon the head of Ioshua the sonne of Iosedech, the high priest.
New Living Translation
Accept their gifts, and make a crown from the silver and gold. Then put the crown on the head of Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
New Life Bible
Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the head religious leader.
New Revised Standard
Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take euen siluer, and golde, and make crownes, and set them vpon the head of Iehoshua, the sonne of Iehozadak the hie Priest,
George Lamsa Translation
Then take his silver and his gold, and make a crown and set it upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yea thou shalt take silver and gold, and make a crown, - and set it upon the head of Jehoshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt take gold and silver: and shalt make crowns, and thou shalt set them on the head of Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest.
Revised Standard Version
Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it upon the head of Joshua, the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then take golde and siluer, & make crownes therof, and set them vpon the head of Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hie priest,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt take silver and gold, and make crowns, and thou shalt put them upon the head of Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest;
Good News Translation
Make a crown out of the silver and gold they have given, and put it on the head of the High Priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.
Christian Standard Bible®
Take silver and gold, make a crown, and place it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Hebrew Names Version
Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Yehoshua the son of Yehotzadak, the Kohen Gadol;
Lexham English Bible
Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Literal Translation
And take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast taken silver and gold, and hast made a crown, and hast placed on the head of Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then take golde and syluer, and make crownes therof, and set them vpon the heade of Iesua the sonne of Iosedec, the hie prest,
New English Translation
Then take some silver and gold to make a crown and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
New King James Version
Take the silver and gold, make an elaborate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Legacy Standard Bible
And take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

Contextual Overview

9 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; 11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; 12 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 : 13 Even he shall build the temple of the Lord ; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. 14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord . 15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord , and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make: Zechariah 3:5, Exodus 28:36-38, Exodus 29:6, Exodus 39:30, Leviticus 8:9, Psalms 21:3, Song of Solomon 3:11, Hebrews 2:9, Revelation 19:12

Joshua: Zechariah 3:1, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:14, Haggai 2:4

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:14 - Seraiah Ezra 3:2 - Jeshua Ezra 5:2 - Jeshua Nehemiah 12:1 - Jeshua Zechariah 6:13 - a priest Revelation 6:2 - and a

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord .
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
2 Chronicles 34:27
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord .
Psalms 11:5
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then take silver and gold, c. Which the Jewish writers suppose were brought by the above men from their brethren in Babylon, as a free will offering towards the building of the temple:

and make crowns two at least, one of silver, and another of gold; the one to be put upon the head of Joshua the high priest; the other upon the head of Zerubbabel, as Kimchi conjectures; though, according to the text, they seem to be both, or all of them, be they as many as they will, to be put upon the head of Joshua; and may signify the different states of the priesthood in the present time, and when in its pristine glory; or that both the crown of the priesthood and the crown of the kingdom should meet in his antitype Christ, who is said to have on his head many crowns, Revelation 19:12. The Targum renders it, "thou shalt make a great crown"; as if only one crown was to be made of gold and silver mixed together; and so the Arabic version renders it; but more are certainly meant, for it follows:

and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest; on whose head a fair mitre was set; see Zechariah 3:5 and with the mitre was wore by the high priest the holy crown, made of pure gold; and which was no other than the plate or "flower" of gold, on which was engraved "Holiness to the Lord", Exodus 28:36 and this, according to the Jewish writers b, was a plate of gold two fingers broad, and reached from ear to ear; though Josephus c seems to give a different account of it; he says,

"the golden crown surrounds (either the mitre, or perhaps rather the forehead or temples); and on it were three rows of cups or flowers, like those of the herb we call "saccharus"; and the Grecian botanists "hyosciamus";''

or henbane; and after describing the herb, and the figure of the buds, cups, or flowers of it, he adds,

"like to these is made a crown reaching from the hinder part of the head unto both temples; for the flowers do not encompass the forehead; but there is a golden plate, which has the name of God engraved in sacred letters;''

which seems to disagree with the accounts of other Jewish writers; unless, as Braunius d observes, they may be thus reconciled, that the crown was nothing else but the plate that was two fingers broad, and was in length from ear to ear; so that about the temples it was ornamented with three rows of henbane flowers on each side: and these three rows may give occasion for the use of the word in the plural number; and some have called it a triple crown e; and Popish writers fail not to improve it in favour of the crown their pontiff wears; and Lyra f speaks of little crowns or coronets, even in the mitres of the common priests; which (he says) were circles in the lower part of them so called; wherefore the rows of flowers in the high priest's crown, from whence it might be called ציץ, a flower, might with more propriety bear that name. Philo the Jew g, speaking of the golden plate, says it was like a crown engraven with four letters of the name (Jehovah); and further observes, that

"the mitre under it kept the plate from touching the head, on which the "cidaris" or diadem was put; for it was like the cidaris which the eastern kings used for a diadem:''

and indeed this crown, and the three rows of flowers in it, were a hieroglyphic or emblem of the threefold office of Christ, whom the high priest represented, kingly, priestly, and prophetic; and so may be fitly signified here by crowns in the plural number; and it is usual with the Jewish writers to speak of three crowns, the crown of the law, the crown of the kingdom, and the crown of the priesthood h; and very probably from the high priest among the Jews wearing crowns it was that the priests among the Heathens had the same ornaments on their heads; and to be crowned was with them the same as to exercise the office of priesthood i, and who was an eminent type of the Messiah, and in this of having crowns put upon his head, as the following words show.

b Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 9. sect. 1. Jarchi in Exod. xxviii. 36. c Antiqu. l. 3. c. 7. sect. 7. d De Vestitu Sacerdot. Hebr. l. 2. c. 28. sect. 18. p. 807. e Fortunatus Scacchus in Myrothec. l. 3. c. 40. p. 1000. Solerius de Pileo, sect. 13. p. 266. f In Exod. xxxix. 27. g De Vita Mosis, l. 3. p. 670, 671. h Pirke Abot, c. 4. sect. 13. i Paschalius de Coronis, l. 4. c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And make crowns - Or a “crown” , as in Job, “I would bind it as a crown unto me,” and our Lord is seen in the Revelation, “on His Head were many crowns” . The singular is used of “a royal crown” , apparently of a festive crown ; and figuratively; (Job 19:9, (plur. Job 31:36) Proverbs 4:9; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 14:24; Proverbs 16:31.Proverbs 17:6; Proverbs 17:6); even of Almighty God Himself as a crown ; but no where of the mitre of the high priest.

The characteristic of the act is, that “the crown” or crowns (it is not in the context said, which) were placed on the head of the one high priest, Joshua; “and thou shall place” (it or them, it is not said which) “upon the head of Joshua son of Josedech the high priest, and shalt say unto him.” If crowns were made of each material, there were two crowns. But this is not said, and the silver might have formed a circlet in the crown of gold, as, in modern times, the iron crown of Lombardy, was called iron, because it had “a plate of iron in its summit, being else of gold and most precious” . In any case the symbolical act was completed by the placing of a royal crown upon the head of the high priest. This, in itself, represented that He, whom he and all other priests represented, would be also our King. It is all one then, whether the word designate one single crown, so entitled for its greatness, or one united royal crown, that is, one crown uniting many crowns, symbolizing the many kingdoms of the earth, over which our High Priest and King should rule.

Either symbol, of separate crowns “the golden at Rome.” Du Cang. Otto of Frisingen said that Frederic received 5 crowns; the first at Aix for the kingdom of the Franks; a second at Ratisban for that of Germany; a third at Pavia for the kingdom of Lombardy; the fourth at Rome for the Roman empire from Adrian iv; the fifth of Monza for the kingdom of Italy.” In our own memory, Napoleon I. having been crowned in France, was crowned with the iron crown at Monza), or an united crown , has been used in the same meaning, to symbolize as many empires, as there were crowns.

On Zerubbabel no crown was placed. It would have been confusing; a seeming restoration of the kingdom, when it was not to be restored; an encouragement of the temporal hopes, which were the bane of Israel. God had foretold, that none of the race of Jehoiakim should prosper, “sitting on the throne of David, or ruling any more in Israel.” Nehemiah rejects the imputation of Sanballat, “Thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem,” There is “a king in Judah.” He answers, “There are no such things done as thou sayest; and thou feignest them out of thine own heart” Nehemiah 6:6-8. But Isaiah had foretold much of the king who should reign: Zechariah, by placing the royal crown on the head of Joshua, foreshowed that the kingdom was not to be of this world. The royal crown had been taken away in the time of Zedekiah, “Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem and take away the crown; this shall not be this; exalt the low and abase the high; an overthrow, overthrow, overthrow will I make it; this too is not; until he come whose the right is, and I will give it” (Ezekiel 21:31-32 (Ezekiel 21:26-27 in English)).

But the Messiah, it was foretold, was to be both priest and king; “a priest after the order of Melchizedec” Psalms 110:4, and a king, set by the Lord “upon His holy hill of Zion” Psalms 2:6. The act of placing the crown on the head of Joshua the high priest, pictured not only the union of the offices of priest and king in the person of Christ, but that He should be King, being first our High Priest. Joshua was already high priest; being such, the kingly crown was added to him. It says in act, what Paul says, that “Christ Jesus, being found in fashion as a man, humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him” Philippians 2:8-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 6:11. Make crowns — עטרות ataroth; but seven MSS. of Kennicott's and De Rossi's, and one ancient of my own, with the Syriac and Chaldee, have עטרת atereth, a crown, or tiara. And as Joshua the high priest is alone concerned here, I think one crown only is intended.


 
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