Zechariah 13:1 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →On the promised day God opens a cleansing fountain for the royal house and the whole city, washing away sin and uncleanness.
What Does Zechariah 13:1 Mean?
The vision opened in the previous chapter, where God pours out a spirit of grace and mourning over a pierced one, now flows into a promise of cleansing. "In that day" ties this verse to that turning of hearts. Where there had been blood and grief, God provides a fountain standing open and inexhaustible, offered freely to David's house and to every dweller in Jerusalem alike.
Mourning over sin is not the end God intends; cleansing is. A fountain does not need to be earned, only entered, and it remains open. The whole movement of Scripture leans toward this gift, fulfilled when the same pierced Savior pours out a cleansing that reaches every kind of person and every kind of stain. No one stands too high or too unclean for water that God Himself has opened.
Zechariah 13:1 in the Original Language
niddah (נִדָּה), 'uncleanness' -- the ceremonial impurity that barred a person from worship, here washed entirely away.
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What does Zechariah 13:1 mean?
On the promised day God opens a cleansing fountain for the royal house and the whole city, washing away sin and uncleanness.