Zacarias 3:2

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Mas o SENHOR disse a Satans: O SENHOR te repreende, Satans, sim, o SENHOR, que escolheu Jerusalm, te repreende; no este um tio tirado do fogo?

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Mas o SENHOR disse a Satans: O SENHOR te repreenda, Satans, sim, o SENHOR, que escolheu Jerusalm, te repreenda; no este um tio tirado do fogo?

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Mas o SENHOR disse a Satans: O SENHOR te repreende, Satans; sim, o SENHOR, que escolheu a Jerusalm, te repreende; no este um tio tirado do fogo?

Bible Verse Review
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the Lord said: Psalms 109:31, Luke 22:32, Romans 16:20, 1 John 3:8

The Lord rebuke: Daniel 12:1, Mark 1:25, Luke 4:35, Luke 9:42, Jude 1:9, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:10

chosen: Zechariah 1:17, Zechariah 2:12, 2 Chronicles 6:6, John 13:18, Romans 8:33, Revelation 17:14

a brand: Amos 4:11, Romans 11:4, Romans 11:5, Jude 1:23

Reciprocal: Judges 2:1 - And an angel 1 Chronicles 12:17 - rebuke it 2 Chronicles 7:16 - have I chosen Jeremiah 18:20 - Remember Daniel 10:13 - the prince Zechariah 12:8 - as the Matthew 4:10 - Satan Matthew 16:23 - Satan Mark 9:25 - he rebuked John 12:7 - Let 1 Corinthians 3:15 - yet 1 Thessalonians 2:18 - Satan

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Satan,.... The same with the Angel of the Lord, Zechariah 3:1 having heard the charge brought by him against Joshua, here called Jehovah, being the Son of God, and properly God:

The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; these words may be considered, either as the intercession of Jehovah the Son with Jehovah the Father, for Joshua and his church, and against Satan; that he would reprove him for his malice and wickedness; stop his mouth, and silence him, that he might not go on to accuse; that he would confound his schemes, and restrain him from doing mischief; tread him down, and bruise him under the feet of his people, and pour out his wrath upon him: or as a declaration of what should be done to him, or what he himself would do; for it may be rendered, "the Lord will rebuke thee" w; as the following clause is by some, who take this to be a wish, and the following a positive declaration, that Jehovah the Father would certainly rebuke Satan; as might be concluded from the reasons and arguments used by the angel, taken from God's choice of Jerusalem; the building of which Satan endeavoured to hinder, though God had chosen it for his habitation and worship; and from the deliverance of Joshua out of the fire for that purpose: and this reproof of him on the behalf of his people is founded on their election of God:

even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; which act is eternal; springs from the love and grace of God towards them; antecedes all works, good or bad, done by them; stands firm, sure, and unalterable; such who are interested in it are called, justified, and shall be glorified; nor has Satan anything to do with them; nor will any charge of his be of any avail against them, Romans 8:33:

[is] not this a brand plucked out of the fire? which is to be understood of Joshua; not of his being delivered out of that fire, into which the Jews x say he was cast, along with Ahab and Zedekiah, whom the king of Babylon roasted in it, Jeremiah 29:22 when he marvellously escaped; others say y 8000 young priests fled to the temple, and were burnt in it, and only Joshua was preserved; but of his deliverance out of the Babylonish captivity, and also of the priesthood, which, during the captivity, when the temple was destroyed, and temple service ceased, was like a brand in the fire; and though Joshua the high priest was returned, and the priesthood in some measure restored, yet not to its former glory, the temple not being yet built; and therefore was but like a smoking firebrand; likewise the people of God may be meant; see Amos 4:11, who are by nature like a branch cut off, a dry stick cast into the fire, and half burnt; they are in a state of separation from God, Father, Son, and Spirit; and they are unprofitable and unfruitful, and in danger in themselves of being consumed in the fire of divine wrath, of which they are as deserving as others, and are under the sentence of it; and, when convinced, have dreadful apprehensions of being consumed by it; but, through the grace, mercy, love, and power of God, they are plucked out of this state in the effectual calling, and are secured from everlasting destruction; wherefore Satan is rebuked for attempting to bring any who are instances of such grace and goodness into condemnation; it being wicked and malicious, bold and daring, vain and fruitless; since such are secured by the grace and power of God, and are preserved for everlasting glory and happiness.

w יגער "increpabit", Burkius. x Jarchi & Kimchi in loc. y T. Hieros. Taaniot, fol. 69. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee - Jerome: “This they so explain, that the Father and the Son is Lord, as we read in the Psalms 110:1-7, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand.” The Lord speaketh of another Lord; not that He, the Lord who speaketh, cannot rebuke, but that, from the unity of nature, when the Other rebuketh, He Himself who speaketh rebuketh. For “he who seeth the Son, seeth the Father also” John 14:9. It may be that God, by such sayings , also accustomed people, before Christ came, to believe in the Plurality of Persons in the One Godhead. The rebuke of God must be with power. “Thou hast rebuked the nations, Thou hast destroyed the ungodly” Psalms 9:5. “Thou hast rebuked the proud, accursed” Psalms 119:21. “They perish at the rebuke of Thy Countenance” Psalms 80:16. “At Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep” Psalms 76:6. “God shall rebuke him, and he fleeth far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind” Isaiah 17:13. “He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up” Psalms 106:9. “The foundations of the world were discovered at Thy rebuke, O Lord” (Psalms 18:15, add Nahum 1:4). He “rebuked the seed” Malachi 2:3, and it perished; the devourer” Malachi 3:11, and it no longer devoured. The rebuke then of the blasted spirit involved a withering rejection of himself and his accusations, as when Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and he departed out of his victim Mark 1:25-26; Mark 9:25; Luke 4:35; Luke 9:42.

The Lord hath chosen Jerusalem - Joshua then is acquitted, not because the accusation of Satan was false, but out of the free love of God for His people and for Joshua in it and as its representative. “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth?” Romans 8:33-34. The high priest, being “himself also compassed with infirmity, needed daily to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for the people’s” Hebrews 5:2-3. As Isaiah said, on the sight of God, “I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips” Isaiah 6:5, and, until cleansed by the typical coal, dared not offer himself for the prophetic office, so here Satan, in Joshua, aimed at the whole priestly office, and in it, at Israel’s relation to God.

Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? - Cyril: “As if he should say, Israel confessedly has sinned, and is liable to these charges. Yet it has suffered no slight punishment; it has endured sufferings, and has scarce been snatched out of them, as a half-burned “brand out of the fire.” For not yet had it shaken off the dust of the harms from the captivity; only just now and scarely had it escaped the flame of that most intolerable calamity. Cease then imputing sin to them, on whom God has had mercy.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 3:2. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? — The Jews were nearly destroyed because of their sins; a remnant of them is yet left, and God is determined to preserve them. He has had mercy upon them, and forgiven them their sins. Wouldst thou have them destroyed? It is God that hath justified them; who art thou that condemnest them? The Lord rebuke thee! God confound thee for what thou hast done, and for what thou desirest farther to do! It is evident that Jude 1:9 relates to this circumstance-the very same phraseology which occurs here. Jude 1:9, where the subject is largely considered. With difficulty has this remnant escaped, and God will not permit fresh evils to fall upon them, by which they might be totally consumed. This was Satan's design, who accuses the followers of God day and night. See Revelation 12:10.