Zechariah 13:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 And in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the [a]names of the idols out of the land: and they shall no more be remembered: and I will cause the [b]prophets, and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land.
3 And when any shall yet [c]prophesy, his father and his mother that begat him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live: for thou speakest lies in the Name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, [d]shall thrust him through, when he prophesieth.
4 And in that day shall the prophets [e]be ashamed everyone of his vision, when he hath prophesied: neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive.
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- Zechariah 13:2 He promiseth that God will also purge them from all superstition, and that their religion shall be pure.
- Zechariah 13:2 Meaning, the false prophets and teachers, who are the corrupters of all religion, whom the Prophet here calleth unclean spirits.
- Zechariah 13:3 That is, when they shall prophesy lies, and make God, who is the author of truth, a cloak thereunto.
- Zechariah 13:3 He showeth what zeal the godly shall have under the kingdom of Christ, Deut. 13:6, 9.
- Zechariah 13:4 God shall make them ashamed of their errors and lies, and bring them to repentance, and they shall no more wear Prophet’s apparel to make their doctrine seem more holy.
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