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Supplementary Oracle. “Hear, O Joshua, high priest! You and your associates who sit before you! For they are signs of things to come![a](A) I will surely bring my servant the Branch.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:8 Signs of things to come: the restoration of the priesthood is a sign of the expected restoration of the Davidic line. The Branch: a tree metaphor for the expected future ruler as a descendant of the Davidic dynasty. This imagery also appears in Is 11:1, 10; Jer 23:5; 33:15; and Zec 6:12.

12 And say to him: Thus says the Lord of hosts: There is a man whose name is Branch[a](A)—and from his place he will branch out and he will build the temple of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:12 Branch: future Davidic ruler. See note on 3:8.