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In that day there shall be au fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for πuncleanness.

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Heb. 9:14• ¹⁴by how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by [the] eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? (Heb. 9:14)

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Rev. 1:5• ⁵and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us and washed us from our sins in his blood, (Rev. 1:5)

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Rev. 7:13‑14• ¹³And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These that are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
¹⁴And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev. 7:13‑14)

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separation for uncleanness.

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1: The fountain of purgation for Jerusalem,

2-6: from idolatry, and false prophecy.

7-9: The death of Christ, and the trial of a third part.

that,

Zech. 12:3,8,11• ³And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
⁸In that day shall Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of Jehovah before them.
¹¹In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. (Zech. 12:3,8,11)

a fountain,

Job 9:30‑31• ³⁰If I wash myself with snow-water,{HR}And cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch,{HR}And mine own clothes would abhor me. (Job 9:30‑31)

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Psa. 51:2,7• ²Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,{HR}And cleanse me from my sin.
⁷Purge me with hyssop,{HR}And I shall be clean; wash me,{HR}And I shall be whiter than snow. (Psa. 51:2,7)

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Isa. 1:16‑18• ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes.
¹⁷Cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:16‑18)

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Ezek. 36:25• ²⁵Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. (Ezek. 36:25)

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)

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John 19:34‑35• ³⁴but one of the soldiers with a spear thrust his side, and there came out immediately blood and water.
³⁵And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe. (John 19:34‑35)

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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Eph. 5:25‑27• ²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for it,
²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
²⁷that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:25‑27)

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Titus 3:5‑7• ⁵not by works in righteousness which we ourselves did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
⁶which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:5‑7)

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Heb. 9:13‑14• ¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth for the purity of the flesh,
¹⁴by how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by [the] eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? (Heb. 9:13‑14)

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1 John 1:7• ⁷But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [Christ] his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

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1 John 5:6• ⁶This is he that came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood; and it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. (1 John 5:6)

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1 Peter 1:19• ¹⁹but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, (1 Peter 1:19)

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Rev. 1:5‑6• ⁵and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us and washed us from our sins in his blood,
⁶and he made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him be the glory and the might unto the ages of the ages. Amen. (Rev. 1:5‑6)

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Rev. 7:13‑14• ¹³And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These that are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
¹⁴And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev. 7:13‑14)

the house.

Zech. 12:7,10• ⁷And Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified over Judah.
¹⁰And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zech. 12:7,10)

uncleanness.

Heb. separation for uncleanness.

Lev. 15:2‑33• ²Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man hath a flux from his flesh because of his flux, he [is] unclean.
³And this shall be his uncleanness in his flux: whether his flesh run with his flux, or his flesh be closed from his flux, it [is] his uncleanness.
⁴Every bed whereon he that hath the flux lieth shall be unclean; and everything whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.
⁵And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
⁶And he that sitteth on [anything] whereon he that hath the flux sat shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
⁷And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the flux shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
⁸And if he that hath the flux spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
⁹And what carriage (or saddle) soever he that hath the flux rideth upon shall be unclean.
¹⁰And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even; and he that beareth those things shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
¹¹And whomsoever he that hath the flux toucheth without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
¹²And the earthen vessel that he that hath the flux toucheth shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
¹³And when he that hath a flux is cleansed of his flux, then he shall count seven days for his cleansing, and wash his raiment, and bathe his flesh in living water, and he shall be clean.
¹⁴And on the eighth day he shall take two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, and give them unto the priest.
¹⁵And the priest shall offer them, one as a sin-offering and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah for his flux.
¹⁶And if any man's seed of copulation pass from him, then he shall bathe his whole flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
¹⁷And all raiment and every skin, wherein the seed of copulation shall be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
¹⁸And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
¹⁹And if a woman hath a flux, and her flux in her flesh be blood, she shall be seven days in her separation, and whoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
²⁰And everything that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean; and everything that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
²¹And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his raiment, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
²²And whoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall wash his raiment, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
²³And if it be on the bed or on anything on which she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
²⁴And if a man lie with her at all, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
²⁵And if a woman have her flux of blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if she have the flux beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the flux of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she is unclean.
²⁶Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her flux shall be to her as the bed of her separation; and everything on which she sitteth shall be unclean, according to the uncleanness of her separation.
²⁷And whoever toucheth these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his raiment, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
²⁸And if she be cleansed of her flux, then she shall count seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
²⁹And on the eighth day she shall take to her two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.
³⁰And the priest shall offer the one as a sin-offering and the other as a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the flux of her uncleanness.
³¹Ye shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.
³²This is the law of him that hath a flux, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, whereby he is defiled;
³³and of her who is sick in separation, and of him that hath a flux; of the man and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean. (Lev. 15:2‑33)

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Num. 19:9‑22• ⁹And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation; it is a purification for sin.
¹⁰And he that hath gathered the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. And it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, an everlasting statute.
¹¹He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days.
¹²He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
¹³Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
¹⁴This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
¹⁵And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
¹⁶And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
¹⁷And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;
¹⁸and a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and upon all the utensils, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead person, or the grave;
¹⁹and the clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him on the seventh day; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
²⁰And the man that is unclean, and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, for he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean.
²¹And it shall be an everlasting statute unto them. And he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his garments, and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
²²And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even. (Num. 19:9‑22)

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Ezek. 36:17,29• ¹⁷Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
²⁹I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. (Ezek. 36:17,29)

• “In that day” — the day introduced by the appearing of the Messiah; a day therefore marked and even waited for in the counsels of God; and a day which will be distinguished forever in the annals of the history of His earthly people, because it is then that their relationships with Jehovah will be restored. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• The fountain is God’s blessed provision for maintaining His people in a cleansed walk before Him. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• There is a beautiful moral order seen in the introduction of the fountain in this place. At the close of the last chapter we have seen the remnant brought under the efficacy of the sacrifice, the value of the blood; for as soon as they looked believingly on Him whom they had pierced, their sins, their transgressions, were all taken away, their guilt was forever removed. The moment, however, this was (or will be) accomplished another need would arise, and that is, a provision for daily cleansing from sin and uncleanness; and this is made by the fountain; for water, an emblem of the word of God, is ever His means of removing the defilements which His people contract in their daily walk. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

W. Kelly Translation

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In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.